panic-stricken
Example Sentences
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Investors waking up to volatile and panic-stricken markets on Monday may be surprised to discover that gold is now in negative territory for the year after a painful bout of profit-taking and deleveraging.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026
Prosecutors argued that this left his poorly trained, panic-stricken crew effectively useless amid the fire, which possibly originated in a trash can sometime after 2:35 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
“Are you panic-stricken? Are your eyes wide? Do you look furtive?” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
People who are prone to fits of anger, who are occasionally panic-stricken, subject to bias, and sometimes overcome by irrationality.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023
It pained Mariam—it pained her considerably—to picture Rasheed panic-stricken and helpless, pacing the banks of the lake and pleading with it to spit his son back onto dry land.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
