How to Use hissy fit in a Sentence

hissy fit

noun
  • Therefore, do your best to avoid hissy fits and meltdowns with kids.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Parents will have to be patient with their kids to avoid hissy fits and meltdowns.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
  • If not, then spoiled daughter will through the biggest hissy fit ever known.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • And then in Season 2, that petulant child is ready to quit and throw a hissy fit.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Likewise, be extra patient with your kids to avoid hissy fits and meltdowns.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Likewise, parents need to be patient with their kids to avoid meltdowns and hissy fits.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 25 July 2025
  • By the way, the same thing applies to passengers seated next to a child who has a hissy fit.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
  • At least that should leave us a little better prepared when the current love-in gives way to the next hissy fit.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • If only Rachel could have seen Tino's hissy fit before making cuts.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2022
  • If his on-field performance wasn't bad enough, Pogba had a number of hissy fits off it, too.
    — SI.com, 10 June 2019
  • Drake, coaching for the Kalamazoo Growlers, had a real on-field hissy fit.
    — Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
  • And when the guy says the book is a piece of trash, Boggs throw him out of his office and has a hissy fit that ends up with papers all over the floor.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 June 2024
  • Because even hearing Sessions’s name is enough to spark a pouty hissy fit from the 71-year-old president.
    — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 6 June 2018
  • After her hissy fit, Serena and June are bound together in a strange ritual.
    — refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
  • Likewise, parents might have difficult exchanges with their kids because of arguments, meltdowns and hissy fits.
    — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 11 June 2024
  • And the disruptive behavior went far beyond the chatters, the fragrant passengers and the ones having hissy fits.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Others argue that the Fed will be reluctant to raise rates too far too fast because the market might have what is essentially a hissy fit.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Our biggest clue is what my late father used to call a hissy fit thrown by chairman Walker at the July 16 public meeting.
    — Dallas News, 31 July 2020
  • However, lovers’ quarrels or difficulty dealing with children (hissy fits or meltdowns) might occur.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Reactions to the recent change in the speaker of the House amounted to one-gag skits, with variations ranging from intemperate to hissy fits.
    — Armond White, National Review, 6 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, Baker and his supporters seem to be pitching one of the biggest hissy fits in Lake County’s recent political history.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2024
  • My suspicion is that various animals already knew where the Ninth Circuit Court was going to come down on the selfie issue and decided to throw a hissy fit.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • This pledge effectively amounts to a subsidy from the executive branch to the fossil fuel industry—and yet the industry and Republicans alike are throwing a hissy fit about it.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The aurorae were active last night as the Sun's recent hissy fit sparked a geomagnetic storm, but by the time Dave go his equipment set up, the Moon was up and the aurorae fading.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2012
  • Kudos to the owners of the Tampa Bay Bucs for not throwing a hissy fit and objecting to the Jaguars playing an entire season so close to Tampa.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Senior adviser to Mastrianos' campaign Jenna Ellis has subsequently accused the media of throwing a hissy fit over the portrait.
    — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 29 Aug. 2022
  • At the end of the third episode, Miranda takes an emergency call from her despondent son Brady after a breakup during Che’s pilot episode taping, leading to Che throwing a massive hissy fit.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • So there’s no excuse not to finalize this deal promptly regardless of whether that induces a hissy fit from United Here and the Chicago Federation of Labor.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • As the smell of cinnamon rolls and suntan lotion wafted through the spring air at Disneyland on Monday morning, Rory Sutherland flung herself on the sidewalk and had what can only be described as a hissy fit.
    — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • In reaction to the possible redrawing of the Texas Congressional map to benefit Republicans, Democrats are throwing a hissy fit and have promised to retaliate by doing the same in California.
    — Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025

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