How to Use conniption in a Sentence

conniption

noun
  • 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
  • Words that would have caused our grandparents to have conniptions now pass without remark.
    — Emma Byrne, Time, 23 Jan. 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
  • The economy is his latest conniption.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Or someone remembered his publicist sitting in the corner having a quiet conniption.
    — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 28 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • The fine-tuning ends only during the technical rehearsals, when any further changes would give the designers, board operators and stage managers conniption fits.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The conniption — a properly old-fashioned word, considering the restaurants' rustic decor and pretend general store — started last week.
    — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Marie Greyhounds, the entire junior hockey establishment went into conniption fits.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • After its sixth attempt, the Justice Department practically had a conniption fit.
    — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kane scored two goals in England’s opening-game win over Croatia but missed a gimme against Ghana yesterday in a 0-0 draw, sending pubs into conniption.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 24 June 2026
  • 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
  • One involves a séance for Mary held by a mysterious interloper named Imogen (FKA Twigs), whose revelations send the singer into self-harming conniptions.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
  • What kind of developer puts his money into an indie documentary that might give his business-as-usual peers — not to mention investors, luxury condo buyers and other beneficiaries of Miami’s prolonged but problematic and plainly inequitable real-estate boom — a conniption?
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 18 May 2026
  • Save for some divisive lore decisions that threw Reddit megafans into a conniption, not least the destruction of Shady Sands and the seeming demise of the New California Republic, the emergent fan consensus was that Fallout was made with the love, care, and reverence of fellow Fallout nerds.
    — Jack King, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025

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