How to Use tantrum in a Sentence

tantrum

noun

• How will the Fed respond to the tantrum in bond markets?
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2021
• This guy had a tantrum at a Starbucks and his pants fell down.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2023
• The fun and the sun culminated in a first-class tantrum.
  — Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2023
• Losing his cool and throwing a tantrum on the court isn't a good look.
  — J. Michael, Indianapolis Star, 7 July 2018
• The Sun appears to have thrown a temper tantrum last week.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 25 Apr. 2022
• The tears, the tantrums – many parents will know the feeling only too well.
  — Catherine Nicholls, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
• Once again, Steve Carell is the star of the show going into full Michael tantrum mode.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
• The answer to neo-Nazi rage is not elite urban tantrums.
  — Ann Bauer, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
• James spoke for the entire NBA with that temper tantrum.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 2018
• My answer, of course, is no, which results in a tantrum.
  — Alisa Wolfson, Redbook, 29 Jan. 2018
• And then Donald Trump got out there and just threw a temper tantrum.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2024
• Last night, my toddler threw a temper tantrum that was a 9.2.
  — James Breakwell, Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2018
• If Harris is in the lead, the 2024 Trump vote-fraud tantrum will go full hangry-toddler-in-the-grocery-store.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
• That’ll likely cause our spoiled investors to throw a tantrum!
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• To round out the vibe, throw a tantrum until someone gives you a Mountain Dew.
  — Jen Spyra, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
• To convince her, Christine didn’t beg or throw a teenage tantrum.
  — The Lost Women Of Science Initiative, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2023
• Your boss wants 20 million things from you and so does the 5-year-old who is throwing a tantrum at your feet.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021
• That’s the point of the tantrum over uranium stockpiles and the recent attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 June 2019
• The no-call set Johnson off on a tantrum, and he was hit with a yellow card for dissent.
  — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 13 May 2018
• Through these temper tantrums, Donald Trump is telling a whole lot of lies.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2024
• Anyhow, Stoltenberg appeared to take Trump’s tantrum in stride.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 11 July 2018
• If there was a temper tantrum during a lesson, the child could close the laptop and walk away.
  — Hannah Herrera Greenspan, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• Every year, someone has a full-on tantrum over corned beef.
  — Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2022
• Make sure that doesn’t include throwing tantrums as the moon and Mercury clash.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024
• The right-wing tantrum over the Homeland Security plan is a case in point.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 4 May 2022
• Eilish’s pop-song tantrums and Keys’s false piety give music the power to keep us apart.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2020
• On the night of the book release, their 3-year-old son, Harrison, threw a temper tantrum.
  — Ragan Clark, Dallas News, 30 July 2019
• Or maybe Zalie will throw a tantrum, as two-year-olds are wont to do, and her parents will need to swoop in.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 17 May 2018
• It’s late, dinner is just now on the stove, your phone is ringing, and your child’s tantrum begins.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
• There’s a sense of fun, not to mention consistent episodic structure, in the coven’s journey down the Road, punctuated by Agatha’s tantrums and waystations set-designed to the gills.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024