Panic-stricken Definition

Panic-stricken Sentence Examples

• Panic-stricken princes wrote to them for political assistance or pecuniary aid.

• Scott threw a large metal toolbox at a panic-stricken cashier.

• Children in this category may become panic-stricken over the prospect of visiting with their fathers.

• The panic-stricken inhabitants fled to the nearest strongholds, and soon the rebels were swarming over the palatinates of Volhynia and Podolia.

• Early in 65 Nero was panic-stricken by the discovery of a formidable conspiracy involving such men as Faenius Rufus, Tigellinus's colleague in the prefecture of the praetorian guards, Plautius Lateranus, one of the consuls elect, the poet Lucan, and, lastly, not a few of the tribunes and centurions of the praetorian guard itself.