How To Use Panic-stricken In A Sentence
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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.
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Panic-stricken, she hustled her family away from their house before reporting the ‘bomb scare’ to the shop where she bought the computer.
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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.
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An emergency telephone operator has received a top award after she talked a panic-stricken woman through a terrifying fire ordeal.
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His large, sad eyes sunken in a gaunt, skull-like face, wide and panic-stricken like those of a frightened deer.
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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
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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
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Oh please -- _please_!" was the girl's panic-stricken whisper.
The Visioning
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‘I think I need to go to the hospital right now,’ I said to the husband, who looked panic-stricken.
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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.
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Her statesmen believed the geologists rather than the panic-stricken financiers, and so she held for gold monometallism.
If Not Silver, What?
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And the government's reaction, veering in panic-stricken indecision from one wildly contradictory solution to another, is also traditional.
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He was not feeling well, but less panic-stricken than at any time since the shock of seeing Rochere the previous Thursday evening.
FINAL RESORT
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Michael StewartNewtownabbey, County Antrim• I know we don't have major earthquakes Reports, passim, but I remember being panic-stricken circa 1957 in Nottingham sitting in French lessons when the statues of Our Lady and the Sacred Heart wobbled alarmingly and Sister Mary ordered us to vacate the classroom saying Hail Marys as we ran.
Letters: Cockney sparrows
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He was panic-stricken and searched the streets frantically looking for her.
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The streets were full of panic-stricken people trying to escape the tear gas.
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Instead, ministers and MPs behave like a panic-stricken team of a sinking ship - they see somewhere a crack and all rush into filling it with their bodies.
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Such blatant attempts by panic-stricken politicos to ‘endear’ themselves to voters only ever end up looking like the cynical, cloying stunts they really are.
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It was the most costly of a series of hurried clearances from panic-stricken and nervous City players.
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Jack caught a glimpse of her panic-stricken face.
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The streets were full of panic-stricken people trying to escape the tear gas.
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The Irish brogue became more pronounced as the voice became more panic-stricken.
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She couldn't adjust her eyes to focus on my panic-stricken face.
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There are others who are afraid of drastic change, while some are panic-stricken at the mere thought of change.
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trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd
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He was not feeling well, but less panic-stricken than at any time since the shock of seeing Rochere the previous Thursday evening.
FINAL RESORT
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We believe that argument to be absurd and fallacious, and hope that defenders of liberty will recognise that it is exactly this kind of panic-stricken measure that will most gratify the killers.
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We believe that argument to be absurd and fallacious, and hope that defenders of liberty will recognise that it is exactly this kind of panic-stricken measure that will most gratify the killers.
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He was panic-stricken at the thought he might never play again.
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At an early stage in the fighting, panic-stricken civilians fleeing the violence were seen running in the streets carrying bundles of possessions on their heads.
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‘I don't know,’ she says, looking a bit panic-stricken.
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They left their parents panic-stricken, but yesterday, after the children were found safe and well in Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, both families were understanding.
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The silence from Lapiere was his reason for feeling less panic-stricken.
FINAL RESORT
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He had not taken much notice until he heard a splash and the sound of panic-stricken voices.
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The panic-stricken parents of the three-year-old from Chippenham took her to Bristol Royal Infirmary on Friday night, after she developed a high temperature and sickness.
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The panic-stricken citizens knew not where to turn.
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He wondered for a panic-stricken moment if somehow she knew he had betrayed her, and then forced the thought aside.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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I was panic-stricken, and could do nothing except run and run to escape the police.
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A horse may steal your jumper and then become panic-stricken because it is chasing him!
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With flags draped from windows of nearby houses and ticketless fans in a panic-stricken search for spare briefs, the mood was similar to cup-final day, all tension and expectation.
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When told by the victim's panic-stricken pal the man had been in the water for about two minutes, former London lifeguard Martin knew he had to act fast before paramedics arrived.