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Example sentences for: tantrum

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His response is to throw a tantrum, and he stomps around, complaining--presumably at the top of his lungs, though the ad is silent except for the announcer's voice-over--at this unjust turn of events.
(Or maybe it isn't so curious: Philip Weiss tellingly led his attack on Farrow in the New York Observer last week with a little temper tantrum at his mom.)
Allen throws a tantrum when he and Farrow are walking together on the Upper East Side and Farrow points to a house and asks if it belongs to William F. Buckley.
Spinmeisters of the right are already saying that this election was all about tactics--that if only Dole were a better campaigner, if only Clinton hadn't shamelessly veered right, if only Gingrich hadn't thrown a tantrum on Air Force One, the conservative wave would have rolled on.
The Southern word for a “temper tantrum,' hissy (“She had a hissy when I told her she couldn't go”), first recorded in 1934, has three plausible derivations.