Examples of “conniption” in a Sentence

noun (informal) A sudden outburst of anger or panic.

• MARC JACOBS is the Michael Bloomberg of the West Village and also its Sam Walton. Jane Jacobs would have loved him, if she wasn’t overcome by conniptions at his oozing influence over her beloved neighborhood streets. — John Caramanica, Monopoly by Marc Jacobs (2010)
• When she came downstairs and saw what her children were eating, she had a conniption.

noun (informal) A sudden fit of uncontrollable laughter.

• The joke was not that funny, but he went into conniptions laughing.