Sentence examples for whiff of panic from inspiring English sources

It also carried a whiff of panic.

Payables, by contrast, were extended, suggesting a whiff of panic.

Indeed, there is a whiff of panic at some publishing houses as events spiral.

The financial system gets shaky immediately when there's even a whiff of panic.

Exclamation points can, if over-used, give your writing the acrid whiff of panic.

There is a whiff of panic in the air, and panic can lead to bad policy.

Secondly there does seem to a bit of a whiff of the panic mongering of the "clash of civilisations" crowd and the anti-immigration European right.

FOR all her promises to stand firm against a subsidised rescue for Greece, Germany's Angela Merkel wobbled as soon as financial markets gave off a whiff of serious panic.

And I experienced a whiff of pure panic when, exploring a ruined level of a Volgian laboratory, I saw a giant shadow rear up briefly on a distant wall.

Some of the changes betray a whiff of presidential panic, just when urgent legislative battles loom.In 16 months in office, Mr Uribe has offered Colombians bold leadership with his effort to impose "democratic security" on a country suffering violence from two guerrilla armies, right-wing paramilitaries and drug traffickers.

Yet Thursday's Sun front page – referring to Conservative MP Crispin Blunt and a ban on poppers as part of the government's psychoactive bill – managed to blend homophobia and a whiff of moral panic, as it was suggested that to be high on poppers is particularly shocking.