Sentence examples for panic-struck from inspiring English sources

A midnight thunder-clap makes Baghdadis jump from their beds, panic-struck that the bombardment has already begun.

But when, at the end of 1991, it won the first round of the parliamentary elections, the elite was panic-struck.

In it Scout, 7 or 8 years old, upon seeing snow fall for the first time in Maycomb, Ala., is panic-struck.

He also admired Shelley, but couldn't overlook his weakness for intellectual fads: "With his zeal, his talent, and his fancy, he would do more good and less harm, if he were to give up his wilder theories, and if he took less pleasure in feeling his heart flutter in unison with the panic-struck apprehensions of his readers".

The New York Evening Post reported, "The roads, in all directions, were lined with well-filled stagecoaches, livery coaches, private vehicles and equestrians, all panic-struck, fleeing the city, as we may suppose the inhabitants of Pompeii fled when the red lava showered down upon their houses".

We all feel less secure after Sept. 11, but some panic-struck Americans have gone so far as to buy gas masks, to stock up on fresh water lest terrorists poison their local reservoirs, and to look out for low-flying crop dusters that might disperse deadly biological agents.

Panic struck.

Panic struck as cases of H1N1 flu (a respiratory disease caused by an influenza virus) were reported in Egypt.

The panic struck as the crowd of thousands was leaving the sprawling stadium in the downtown Plateau neighborhood after the last fireworks had signaled the new year.

It used to be that when panic struck equity investors they bailed out of stocks in general, putting money into cash.

Much more recently, a very different disease panic struck the nation: earlier this month news outlets reported that the country is in the grip of three emerging flu or flulike epidemics.