Example sentences for: tantrum

How can you use “tantrum” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • What looks to some like the aftermath of a child’s tantrum among its building blocks is on closer inspection an artful composition of 354 precast concrete boxes (originally hoisted into place by crane) to create 158 homes of various sizes and combinations.

  • 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.)

  • The actress begins disastrously, throwing her own tantrum on a New Hampshire runway.


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