tantrum

Example Sentences

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It’s the same feeling that a petulant toddler has when throwing a tantrum toward its parents.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

It looked like a late-night office tantrum by an architect sick and tired of fitting parking spaces into garages, and in a sense it was.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Corporations buying back their own shares have gotten some of the credit for fueling the stock market’s record-setting comeback from the April tariff tantrum.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

"It was as if he had an internal man tantrum," she said.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

Then he started screaming at the top of his lungs and it didn’t seem like some calculated tantrum.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger