panic-struck
- a variation of panic-stricken.
Example Sentences
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I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
There, see!—from some concealment in the bark, mysteriously safe till now, a six-legged beetle, panic-struck and doomed.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
Cool, deliberate reason reassured on that point, but the thought brought him a little panic-struck catch of breath.
From Doors of the Night by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
Fresh barricades were erected in all the most populous quarters of the city, and the soldiers, stupefied and panic-struck, renounced all further opposition to the revolt.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
The English were surprised and panic-struck, and left six hundred dead on the field of battle.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John
