And the only way to deal with a tantrum is to apply the flat of the hand to the round of the bottom.
This is getting close to the tantrum stage," he said.
After her tantrum she slept late, so that when she awoke it was past time for Johnny's arrival, supposing he had started at sunrise, which she now admitted to herself was the most sensible time for the flight.
Do you go off in a tantrum in this hot broiling sun?
Yü Ch'uan-erh in a tantrumactually put some of it to her lips.
Reproof and punishment must be administered with discretion and judgment, and without passion; for the officer who loses his temper and flies into a tantrum has failed to obtain his first triumph in discipline.
So swear to me that you'll accept our situation without throwing a tantrum over it.
It wouldn't do to even dream of escaping, and I'll let the reader decide how promptly the Canadian threw a tantrum when I ventured to tell him our situation.
She hated them so and was so terrified by them that suddenly they began to make her angry and she felt as if she should like to fly into a tantrum herself and frighten him as he was frightening her.
Colin's tantrum had passed and he was weak and worn out with crying and this perhaps made him feel gentle.
He's not had a tantrum or a whining fit since you made friends.
The old woman got into a tantrumone Monday morning afore breakfast.
If I du, by the living hokey, you'll find John Bull in a tantrum by the time I've got through with him.
Jest then par come across the corn lot, where he and old uncle White had been a ploughing, and I told him what a tantrum marm was in about the oxen and the grist.
He banished the thought instantly from his loyal old heart, ashamed of having applied such a word astantrum to anything Lloyd might choose to do.
Fifty years before old Jem Doldrum and old Jem Tantrum had quarrelled in the Tantrum cabin over a game of slapjack.
The terrific slingshots of Pappy Tantrum had not been without their effect.
That night old man Doldrum and his sons, vowing vengeance, had returned, put a ticktock on the Tantrum window, stuck a pin in the doorbell, and beaten a retreat.
Jemima Tantrum was down at the stream, brewing whiskey at the family still.
Old Mappy Tantrum stood on the table wetting down the Doldrums with hot whiskey.
Gold had been discovered on the Tantrum land, and the stranger, Edgar Edison, was trying to buy the land for a song.
Old Pappy Tantrum knew that just as soon as they were able to affect an aperture they would pour in and the fight would be over.
A tantrum is life plus--it is better far than stagnation, and usually works up into useful life, and sometimes into great art.
Nero was self-willed and occasionally had tantrums--but a tantrumis only a little whirl-wind of misdirected energy.
But be it said to the credit of the good old Consul, he was able to suffuse the whole place with love, and even if Faustina had a tantrum now and then, it did not last long.
Lawful heart, shall I ever forget that tantrum of hers!
Since the purpose of the procedure was punishment, it was rather disconcerting to have the child's tantrum cries change suddenly into squeals of delight.
The tantrum showed no signs of abating; so Jack promptly picked him up and started for a nearby stream, much to his sister's distress; though she never dreamed of interfering when Jack decided that disciplinary measures were necessary.
He put out his hand a little toward Mary, and I am glad to say that, her own tantrum having passed, she was softened too and met him half-way with her hand, so that it was a sort of making up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tantrum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: convulsion; explosion; fit; outburst; paddy; paroxysm; rage; scene; tantrum; temper; wax
