7 sentences with 'controlled'
Example sentences and phrases with the word controlled and other words derived from it.
• « Glucose is the main sugar in the blood, where its level is tightly controlled by hormones such as insulin. »
• « By 1800, approximately 35% of the world's land area was controlled by Europeans or their descendants. »
• « By the early 20th century, Europe and the American nations founded by the descendants of Europeans controlled approximately 85% of the globe. »
• « Lydia, a kingdom in western Anatolia, controlled important sources of gold (giving rise to the Greek legend of King Midas, who turned everything he touched into gold). »
• « Although they still controlled a large slave population, Athens is also remembered as the birthplace of democracy. »
• « Although sometimes forced to do so with the backing of a male guardian, women controlled property, could borrow and lend money, and could manage their children's inheritances. »
• « Thus, after centuries of warfare, by 140 BCE the Romans controlled almost the entire Mediterranean world, from Spain to Anatolia. They had not yet conquered the remaining Hellenistic kingdoms, namely those of the Seleucids in the Near East and the Ptolemies in Egypt, but they controlled a vast territory. »