Sentence examples for spate of panic from inspiring English sources
All the recent declarations that 2014 was the hottest year on record seems to have prompted a spate of panic denial among climate change contrarians, denialists and ideologues.
Such was the furore over the pricing spat with Tesco that sales of the spread soared 60% at the major supermarket chains in a spate of panic buying by fans, according to industry data analysts IRI.
Pokémon came on the scene in the middle of a spate of panics involving violent crime and youth delinquency, but a few years before the focus on mass shooters or terrorism.
Through a series of almost Jamesian twists and turns - snatches of conversation overheard at a literary party; an exchange of emails with one eminent publisher-turned-agent whose ethics he describes as "devious" - he became aware, with a rising sense of panic, that a spate of other books on Henry James were also due to be published imminently.
The recent spate of violence has set off a wave of panic, creating unrest especially among the minority Shiites, who make up about 20percentt of the population.
MEXICO CITY — Armed men raided two hotels in the center of Monterrey, Mexico's industrial capital, early Wednesday morning, hauling away four guests and as many as three staff members and sending a wave of panic across a city that has experienced a spate of violent episodes in recent weeks, the authorities said.
Even Roy Jenkins, the man the Tories blame for destroying the fabric of decent society with his liberal policies on abortion, buggery and the like, was panicked by a spate of prison escapes (he said he feared to walk down Whitehall lest he bump into an escaped jailbird), imposing a security regime in our jails which would have alarmed all his Tory confrères save Michael Howard.
Still, the spate of killings has thrown people into a panic.
To be sure, the spate of earthquakes has not caused the same panic and mass exodus as the fears of radiation in the first week after the nuclear crisis began.
An avalanche of panic ensued.
