How to Use control freak in a Sentence

control freak

noun
  • My boss is a real control freak.
  • There was a bit of a control freak thing going on there, too.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Most serial killers tend to be control freaks.
    — Michael Ruiz , Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • As the moon and Saturn oppose, your inner control freak is on the loose.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • There are many, many stories in the coaching world about what a control freak Schiano is.
    — Brian Stultz, ajc, 26 Nov. 2017
  • What a perfectionist, what a control freak, what a mean lady.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Women can be looked at as a control freak or difficult or whatever.
    — Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • Rachel was a princess, Monica a control freak, Joey a dumb actor.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Goguette wine fridges, a new spin-off of the elite wine storage brand Eurocave, are control freaks built to stop all that.
    — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Feb. 2026
  • At the trial, prosecutors painted the singer as a pampered man-child and control freak.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • But with animation, there’s no limit — the control freak in me can be fully unleashed.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • King Richard isn’t saying that Richard is less of a helicoptering control freak.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
  • In a profession filled with workaholic control freaks, Few is an exception.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Like many characters on those shows, the Roys are narcissists, oddballs, control freaks and all-around jerks.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 7 June 2018
  • Comedians can be control freaks.
    — Emma Allen, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Self-destruction is a control freak's way of monopolizing their own fortune.
    — Sean O'Neal, GQ, 30 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Siegfried Farnon is a protective, grouchy, and hyper-responsible control freak, but none of that is static.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • This is a hard concept for many to embrace, especially me, a control freak who craves organization.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2022
  • 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 | [email protected], al.com, 4 June 2019
  • 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
  • Fashion’s bigwigs are not necessarily all-out control freaks.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 8 Aug. 2025
  • 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

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