"Don't you think people might panic less if they knew the cause?"
One of their questions was "Weren't there times when everybody, or at least a few people, just panicked?"
People might panic, but they would have time to recover.
People who might know things would panic and drop out of sight.
Someone said there was a fire, which made people panic even more.
Some people ran out of buildings and panicked in the streets.
His people would panic if he didn't provide decent leadership in this crisis.
You don't want to put yourself in a vulnerable position when people are panicking.
Each time he held the gun up, trying to squirm through to her, people would panic more.
Critics have said that, faced with a real emergency, people would panic.