Sentence examples for was to panic from inspiring English sources

My split-second reaction was to panic.

Unfortunately, the official American reaction was to panic -- just as it was in early May when five Western contractors were killed.

I've always been the one with the plan and whenever I was faced with a problem I haven't encountered before my first reaction was to panic.

The idea, Colonel Hubner said, was to panic the insurgents at the opening of the battle in an effort to scatter them.

An Iraqi national intelligence officer, confirming the arrest by militants of Saddam-era officers, said the motive was: "to panic people, or as revenge, or in the event that they would cooperate with the Iraqi government".

What about James Carville's advice, which was to "panic".

Your natural instinct as a player and as a competitor is to panic.

The other is to panic and change direction.

If you get caught in a rip current, your first instinct will likely be to panic.

"He's never been one to panic.

I was afraid others were going to panic," Elliott said.