How to Use panic attack in a Sentence

panic attack

noun
  • One of them, a young man named David, starts to have a panic attack.
    Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 24 June 2024
  • Along with the sound of bombings and the sound of sirens, people had panic attacks.
    Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Tori, who works with me, was on the ground having a panic attack.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2024
  • New @nytopinion columnist comes out of the gates with a straw-man panic attack on wokeism.
    Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2023
  • My boyfriend came over and held my hand through my panic attack.
    Essence, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Who has heard of a panic attack happening in the middle of the night?
    Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Her daughter had a game over the weekend and had a panic attack and couldn’t breathe because of the mask.
    oregonlive, 3 May 2021
  • Since that night, Haim said, she’s had panic attacks and has been unable to sleep well.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Then Janice has a panic attack, and Agata’s talking her down is one of the high points of the play.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2023
  • One of the victims called the squad during a panic attack two months ago and went to the hospital.
    cleveland, 28 July 2022
  • But first, the series picks up right where episode 3 left off, with Conrad in the middle of a panic attack on the beach.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 July 2023
  • Schwartz has come a long way from that near-panic attack in the Browns locker room in August.
    Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2022
  • This is not the Tom Schwartz that had a panic attack about bartending at Pump.
    Vulture, 8 June 2023
  • Brandan’s mom had the worst of it, suffering a full panic attack at the idea of the bugs touching her.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Seeing that little boy on the bed gave me a panic attack.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • One bystander was treated on the scene for a panic attack, Reynolds said.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 16 July 2022
  • First, Diana has to survive a panic attack — in Times Square, of all places.
    Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The panic attacks began in the fall, during my first stay in Stockholm.
    Vadim Smyslov, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The work has its hazards: One year, the ice was so thick on the way to retrieve a mooring that the captain had a panic attack and turned back.
    Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • After a brief panic attack, Carmel escapes the pod only to be trapped in a locked room.
    Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The sign of another panic attack, his fourth that week.
    New York Times, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Then, in the middle of all that, a panic attack changed everything.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Which is what led to me, standing in the middle of a Metro, bananas in hand, having a full blown panic attack.
    Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • To the extent that a number of them fainted, with at least one having a panic attack.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Bon is on the verge of a panic attack, staring at an old picture of his dead wife and child, and the Captain looks stricken with fear.
    Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 19 May 2024
  • In 2017, during a home game against the Atlanta Hawks, Love suffered a panic attack.
    Elissa Epel, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2022
  • As such, your body leaps to defense mode, acting against a panic attack.
    Caitlin Wolper, Allure, 21 May 2019
  • After the birth of the first of their two sons, Ms. Sparks found that even the smallest dose of marijuana brought on panic attacks.
    Sridhar Pappu, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Her candid comments came after she was hospitalized for a panic attack in Sept. 2023.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Xanax is intended for short-term use only, and for targeted situations—panic attacks, fear of flying, and other phobias.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 6 Sep. 2024

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