bring under control
Example Sentences
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Other prices could be harder to bring under control.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025
They are believed to have come from containers on board the Solong and had been released during the intense fires, which took a week to bring under control.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2025
Gale-force winds combined with hot, dry weather to whip up the flames over the past week in Greece, making the blazes exceptionally difficult to bring under control.
From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2023
About 10 helicopters dropping water and 150 firefighters and 50 military personnel were working to contain the wildfire that could take more than a day to bring under control, authorities said.
From Reuters • Aug. 16, 2023
She had her bad impulses as well as her good ones; and a fierce temper that it would need many years of patient effort to bring under control.
From Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life by Austin, Caroline
