How to Use tantrum in a Sentence

tantrum

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  • 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
  • The Sun appears to have thrown a temper tantrum last week.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Once again, Steve Carell is the star of the show going into full Michael tantrum mode.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
  • And then Donald Trump got out there and just threw a temper tantrum.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 24 Jan. 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
  • Through these temper tantrums, Donald Trump is telling a whole lot of lies.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Of note, Montez Ford was kicked out of this match for throwing a temper tantrum.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Watch this dad’s adorable trick for avoiding temper tantrums over what his 5-year-old wants to wear.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Kyrie Irving, Durant said Green was the most likely to give in to a temper tantrum.
    — Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Like a video game, hit the reset button, throw a love tantrum, force round pegs to fit my square anatomy.
    — Tim Z. Hernandez, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Paris insists its tantrum was not about money -- though the loss of the subs deal dealt a blow to French shipbuilding.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
  • To avoid making the tantrums worse, stop trying to be rational with him.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • And while inconvenient, tantrums cannot and should not be stopped—so long as your child is safe.
    — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Nobody throws a temper tantrum quite like Driver, but there are none to be had here.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Not throwing a tantrum in your home office, not bouncing off the walls of their home classroom — gone.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Avoid lecturing your child, which can turn a bite into a tantrum.
    — USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • The dining room's defaced by this tantrum-throwing loon.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Today, my 2 1/2-year-old daughter (who is usually a good girl) threw a tantrum and called me the same name twice.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2020
  • As the Senate showed, there are enough Republicans who want to do the right thing, regardless of Trump’s tantrums.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The guardrails prevented him from the temper tantrums that characterized the debates of the 2020, forcing him to moderate his outbursts.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 27 June 2024

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