How to Use conniption in a Sentence

conniption

noun

• That's 25 basis points more than Wall Street was counting on, and investors are a delicate bunch who tend to have a conniption when caught off guard.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
• But plans to rename it after him were scrapped when people in the town nearly had a conniption.
  — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 5 May 2018
• What a relief for parents the world over that even royal children throw conniptions at the most inconvenient of times!
  — Katie Nicholl, Vanities, 21 July 2017
• What a relief for parents the world over that even royal children throw conniptions at the most inconvenient of times!
  — Katie Nicholl, Vanities, 21 July 2017
• Words that would have caused our grandparents to have conniptions now pass without remark.
  — Emma Byrne, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
• But can anyone remember a sports league causing an off-season conniption like the NBA is doing this June?
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 28 June 2017
• The left has conniptions because a foreign official may spend a night at a hotel in which the Trump family has an interest.
  — WSJ, 28 July 2017
• But the slogan also caused conniptions among liberal critics of Fox News, who viewed it as an intentional needling of anyone who might question the network’s view of the news.
  — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 14 June 2017
• City residents and our leaders believe in science, don’t consider the virus a hoax and don’t have a conniption fit if a shopkeeper rightly reminds us to put on our mask.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 23 June 2020
• Elsewhere, a potential voter took Terech’s packet of information but was unable to talk for long because his dog was having a conniption.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
• Music licensees can see some of that but are having conniptions at the possibilities that the decrees would eventually be sunsetted and licensing would then take place in a free market.
  — Ed Christman, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2019
• After its sixth attempt, the Justice Department practically had a conniption fit.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
• Or someone remembered his publicist sitting in the corner having a quiet conniption.
  — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 28 July 2017
• Marie Greyhounds, the entire junior hockey establishment went into conniption fits.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The issue might seem remote, amid the constant political conniptions that increasingly characterize the American news cycle, but an economic and military frontier on the moon and cislunar space is rapidly coming to the fore.
  — Jack H. Burke, National Review, 13 June 2019

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024