How to Use hissy fit in a Sentence

hissy fit

noun

• 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
• Drake, coaching for the Kalamazoo Growlers, had a real on-field hissy fit.
  — Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
• If his on-field performance wasn't bad enough, Pogba had a number of hissy fits off it, too.
  — SI.com, 10 June 2019
• If only Rachel could have seen Tino's hissy fit before making cuts.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• After her hissy fit, Serena and June are bound together in a strange ritual.
  — refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024