How do you use Ctrl in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Ctrl meaning
Abbreviation of control key.
Using Ctrl
- The main meaning on this page is: Abbreviation of control key.
- In the example corpus, ctrl often appears in combinations such as: damage ctrl, ctrl alt, ctrl and.
Context around Ctrl
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ctrl
- In this selection, "ctrl" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, damage, pressed, press, member, f11 and teammate stand out and add context to how "ctrl" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and pressed ctrl c then and as damage ctrl is in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ctrl" sits close to words such as adil, agra and amicably, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ctrl
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Non-title with Iyo Sky the odd Ctrl member out. (10 words)
A receptionist asks for information from a robot by CTRL Robotics. (11 words)
The command CTRL-W CTRL-U is used to justify the full file. (13 words)
Damage CTRL wasn’t allowed ringside — and they did a tease of Bayley wanting to challenge for the title herself earlier in the evening — and Bayley was left to get laid out to end the show, put through a table with Belair celebrating over her. (45 words)
Commands to enable bold or italics, printing, blocking text to copy or delete, saving or retrieving files from disk, etc. were typically a short sequence of keystrokes, such as Ctrl-P-B for bold, or Ctrl-K-S to save a file. (42 words)
Prefacing these keystrokes with Ctrl-Q generally expanded their action, moving the cursor to the end/beginning of the line, end/beginning of the document, etc. Ctrl-G would delete the character under the cursor. (35 words)
Back from commercial, Bianca Belair is interviewed but Damage CTRL attack and beat her down before she can get a word in edgewise! (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
If you took a Capri Sun and pressed CTRL + C, then CTRL + V, and then photoshopped the Kool-Aid man onto the package, this is what you would get.
Alternatively, find the screenshot on your Chromebook, select it, and simply press Ctrl + C to copy it to the clipboard and Ctrl + V to paste, just like Windows.
Our Lenovo ThinkPad X240 didn’t even match Neverware’s suggestion of CTRL + F5 for ; for some inexplicable reason, CTRL + F11 worked instead.
Commands to enable bold or italics, printing, blocking text to copy or delete, saving or retrieving files from disk, etc. were typically a short sequence of keystrokes, such as Ctrl-P-B for bold, or Ctrl-K-S to save a file.
For example, Ctrl+K? was WordStar's word count command and Ctrl+QL was its spell check command.
If not configured otherwise, Ctrl + S and Ctrl + Q can be used instead of Scroll Lock, in any terminal in Linux, to freeze and unfreeze the terminal output respectively.
Prefacing these keystrokes with Ctrl-Q generally expanded their action, moving the cursor to the end/beginning of the line, end/beginning of the document, etc. Ctrl-G would delete the character under the cursor.
The command CTRL-W CTRL-U is used to justify the full file.
The CTRL-X and CTRL-O commands save the contents of the editor.
And in a final Money In The Qualifier for the night, Iyo Sky pinned Shotzi to join Damage CTRL teammate Bayley – who helped her win the sprint of a match – in the high stakes bout.
A receptionist asks for information from a robot by CTRL Robotics.
Back from commercial, Bianca Belair is interviewed but Damage CTRL attack and beat her down before she can get a word in edgewise!
Cole even gets in a Jeopardy reference as Damage CTRL is in trouble to end the show.
Ctrl F3 (or “Function Key 3”) on Mac is a shortcut that opens the Mission Control feature.
Damage CTRL wasn’t allowed ringside — and they did a tease of Bayley wanting to challenge for the title herself earlier in the evening — and Bayley was left to get laid out to end the show, put through a table with Belair celebrating over her.
For example, pressing F1 may open a help menu in some programs, while pressing Ctrl + F5 may refresh a webpage.
Her goal at the Royal Rumble was to prevent Bayley or Damage Ctrl from winning.
Her relationship with fellow Damage CTRL member Bayley has been stressed of late, and it’s pretty obvious that Bayley is not comfortable with SKY’s recent breakout as a singles star.
Last week, Bianca explained that she has been consumed by vengeance ever since Damage CTRL put her on the shelf with a backstage attack in August.
Non-title with Iyo Sky the odd Ctrl member out.
Common combinations with ctrl
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- damage ctrl 26×
- ctrl alt 6×
- ctrl and 5×
- ctrl is 5×
- and ctrl 4×
- ctrl to 3×
- ctrl shift 3×
- pressing ctrl 3×
- use ctrl 3×
- the ctrl 3×