Example sentences for: tantrum

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Post adds the detail that Iraq's latest tantrum followed a day of aggressive surprise inspections conducted by Ritter's team.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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