How to Use control freak in a Sentence

control freak

noun

• My boss is a real control freak.
• Some are control freaks who want to eat only their own food.
  — Tim Carman, Houston Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2019
• There are many, many stories in the coaching world about what a control freak Schiano is.
  — Brian Stultz, ajc, 26 Nov. 2017
• Our mother was a loving control freak who did not have much of a sense of humor.
  — Leo Dominguez, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• Rachel was a princess, Monica a control freak, Joey a dumb actor.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• The only control freak in your life your therapist will approve of.
  — Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2022
• Saban is a control freak who places himself in charge of unpredictable teenagers.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
• King Richard isn’t saying that Richard is less of a helicoptering control freak.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
• At the trial, prosecutors painted the singer as a pampered man-child and control freak.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• Like many characters on those shows, the Roys are narcissists, oddballs, control freaks and all-around jerks.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 7 June 2018
• Financial abuse and control freak issues can go both ways.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
• There's a lot of ideas on the table and most of them are scaring the bejesus out of college head football coaches, who are the biggest control freaks on the planet.
  — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 30 May 2018
• In Juno's eye's, Winnie Crouch is not so much a loving mother as an overbearing control freak.
  — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2020
• Another contradiction to add to the list: the control freak who loves to improvise.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2012
• Oslo’s dark winter days and icy streets mean a lot of workouts are on the treadmill, but control freak—er, detail-oriented—Bersagel likes the treadmill, year round.
  — Sarah Barker, Outside Online, 26 May 2015
• Mike Hubbard is many things – a sneak and a power-monger, a puppet-master, a control freak, an opportunist and greedy, greedy man.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al.com, 4 June 2019
• To be a baker, Lidgus explains, is to be half control freak, half submissive to fate; to embrace a life of eternal adjustments.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• In this age of the Internet, coaches often fit the cartoon sketch of an emotionless control freak focused only on the next drill in practice, or the six inches in front of their face.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Dec. 2021
• Siegfried Farnon is a protective, grouchy, and hyper-responsible control freak, but none of that is static.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2023
• That’s normal for the 56-year-old control freak whose passion and prowess led to three national championships at the college level.
  — Mark Long, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2021
• Hitchcock the consummate control freak also knew how to keep to his lane and leave his brilliant stars space to develop their characters.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
• By nature, many of these men are control freaks, often having to restrain themselves from coaching every bounce of the basketball.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2018
• That pressure is especially true in the world of college football, in which many coaches could be classified as control freaks.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
• To be honest, Helen — whom everyone lauds for her household management — sounds like a control freak.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• Brian Patterson: Dorothy Maraglino was obviously the control freak in the house.
  — CBS News, 5 June 2018
• However, questions lingered over or not whether Grohl was simply a control freak who’d never let anyone else drum on his albums.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2022
• The lawsuit portrays Salazar as an angry control freak who was obsessed with Cain's weight and publicly humiliated her about it.
  — CBS News, 13 Oct. 2021
• The lawsuit portrays Salazar as an angry control freak who was obsessed with Cain’s weight and publicly humiliated her about it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• Like his theatrical clients, Mr. Zarem could deftly switch roles: from the choleric control freak grappling with the last-minute glitches in staging an event to the chivalrous host greeting every guest like a best friend.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
• But there were also hints back then of Westhead being a grudge-holding control freak, particularly in his treatment of aging former star forward Spencer Haywood.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024