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
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
After keeping the virus mostly at bay for nearly two years, Hong Kong authorities have been unable to bring under control an outbreak driven by the highly transmissible omicron variant.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
Twenty fire engines were sent to tackle the fire, which took four hours to bring under control.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2022
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
