How to Use panic attack in a Sentence

panic attack

noun
  • My boyfriend came over and held my hand through my panic attack.
    Essence, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Then, on the plane, the panic attack hit.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Above all, don’t change your life to avoid panic attacks.
    Julia Daye, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Turns out she’d had a panic attack.
    Jeannie Vanasco september 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • How many of us know what to do when someone has a panic attack?
    NBC News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • But holy crap does this kid know how to give me a panic attack already!
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Tori, who works with me, was on the ground having a panic attack.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2024
  • This is when the panic attack fully kicked in.
    Will Rice, Outside, 13 Nov. 2025
  • One of them, a young man named David, starts to have a panic attack.
    Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 24 June 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
  • Doom should put you on the verge of a panic attack without tipping over.
    PC Magazine, 9 May 2025
  • Gaiman was prone to panic attacks and had never been in treatment.
    Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Barnwell said paramedics were called to check out one person who had a panic attack.
    Carol Robinson, AL.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Culling season was over, but Alyssa woke up to panic attacks for months.
    Celia Ford, Vox, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Along with the sound of bombings and the sound of sirens, people had panic attacks.
    Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • As such, your body leaps to defense mode, acting against a panic attack.
    Caitlin Wolper, Allure, 21 May 2019
  • Who has heard of a panic attack happening in the middle of the night?
    Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • This is a panic attack for his narrator, but a dance number for the rest of us.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 June 2025
  • Kendall has been open in the past about her anxiety and issues with panic attacks.
    Alison Caporimo, Seventeen, 16 Feb. 2018
  • One of the boys, now 9, had a panic attack, according to the claim.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 13 May 2026
  • Some might have panic attacks numerous times in one day or a handful each year.
    Maggie O'Neill, Outside, 21 Mar. 2026
  • One bystander was treated on the scene for a panic attack, Reynolds said.
    Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 16 July 2022
  • Even watching the film feels harrowing, a sort of two-hour panic attack by proxy.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 19 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Then, in the middle of all that, a panic attack changed everything.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
  • To the extent that a number of them fainted, with at least one having a panic attack.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 10 Nov. 2021
  • One of the victims called the squad during a panic attack two months ago and went to the hospital.
    cleveland, 28 July 2022
  • Doctors called them panic attacks.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • One client suffered a panic attack and had to go to an emergency room, Steel said.
    Sean Emery, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
  • After a brief panic attack, Carmel escapes the pod only to be trapped in a locked room.
    Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 23 Sep. 2021

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