Sentence examples for close to panic from inspiring English sources
"It's very close to panic.
But now he sounded close to panic.
Instead I am close to panic.
The next morning, the Muellers were close to panic.
And as upheaval spread to other countries, something close to panic took hold in Israel.
That proposal caused something close to panic among some business lobbyists.
What it needn't be is close to panic-stricken.
He added: "They must be close to panicking if they're putting this kind of funding in the media here".
But the Investment Company Institute, a trade group, reports that net withdrawals through November amounted to just 0.7percentt of assets, an indication that investors did not come close to panicking.
QUESTION FROM MEGAN: I am torn between taking the long view of Beck and Co. (i.e. seeing them as something akin to other surges in populist rhetoric in the past and viewing this with some detached interest) and, on the other hand, feeling something closer to panic over the state of American politics.
Many who know the governor well say that as Mr. Blagojevich's famed fund-raising capability seemed to have shrunk in recent months and as his legal bills mounted after years of federal investigation, he appeared to have evolved from what Mr. Fritchey considered callous into something closer to panicked or delusional.
