conniption

Example Sentences

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The fine-tuning ends only during the technical rehearsals, when any further changes would give the designers, board operators and stage managers conniption fits.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023

He noted the differences in their styles: Abby sits, while Artis could work himself into a conniption, doing windmills and banging the spoons off his head and jaw.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2018

He didn’t plan on it lasting five years and triggering a national conniption.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2018

The telecommunications industry has responded to the PUC's initiative with what can only be described as a mass conniption fit.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2016

I’d almost convinced myself that his summoning of the matchmaker had just been a conniption, that he’d done it purely to scare me straight.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu