Example sentences for: panics

How can you use “panics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In issuing what amounted to a public vote of confidence in the market, IBM was actually continuing a venerable tradition of Establishment attempts to quell selling panics by intervening loudly and decisively.

  • Although Greenspan did speak to the idea that investors are starting to see stocks as not much more risky than bonds (an idea associated with the authors of Dow 36,000 --see Slate 's "Crapshoot" for a critique of this idea), the real focus of his speech was something much broader, namely the way financial panics tend to eradicate the delicate distinctions between different classes of assets, distinctions that any market system needs in order to invest for the future.

  • Several witchcraft panics "occurred in places where rye was widely cultivated, and after weather that was propitious for the growth of Claviceps ." Claviceps is a parasite that, when eaten, causes hallucinations.

  • It spooked the market because Greenspan mentioned the reality of market panics, and because he linked "Dutch tulip bulbs" with "Russian equities."

  • Because there was a half-century, from the '30s to the '80s, when they just didn't seem to make panics the way they used to.


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