ADJECTIVE
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thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation
became panicky as the snow deepened
felt panicked before each exam
trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd
the terrified horse bolted
How To Use panic-stricken In A Sentence
- While other passengers were wholly panic-stricken, a worker at the station pressed the emergency button which stopped the train, preventing the accident turning into a tragedy.
- Panic-stricken, she hustled her family away from their house before reporting the ‘bomb scare’ to the shop where she bought the computer.
- It is hands down the most supercalifragilistic place in the world and the moment I arrived I was panic-stricken at the thought of leaving.
- An emergency telephone operator has received a top award after she talked a panic-stricken woman through a terrifying fire ordeal.
- His large, sad eyes sunken in a gaunt, skull-like face, wide and panic-stricken like those of a frightened deer.
- She told him to hold on, help was coming, but all she got in reply was a panic-stricken look. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
- And as to perfect success, I should be like the panic-stricken shopkeepers in my alarm at it; for I should believe that genii of the air fly above our tree-tops between us and the incognizable spheres, catching those ambitious shafts they deem it a promise of fun to play pranks with. Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1
- Oh please -- _please_!" was the girl's panic-stricken whisper. The Visioning
- ‘I think I need to go to the hospital right now,’ I said to the husband, who looked panic-stricken.
- The then nine-year-old alerted her mother after retrieving emergency numbers from the top of a kitchen press and looked after her panic-stricken younger brother until help came.