Still the mood today was something approaching panic.
Expressions changed from interest to bewilderment and then to something approaching panic.
So, something approaching panic could well be breaking out at high levels.
Many people seem caught between this fear and an urge to speak out, but they quickly plunge back into something approaching panic.
At first there was something approaching blind panic behind the American lines.
The initial market reaction to a war might approach panic, however.
She looked at the dog with something approaching panic.
Although the gorillas seemed peaceful, the humans watching them felt a tension approaching panic at being so close to such great numbers of them.
The terror campaign induced in the government something approaching panic.
Part of his mind was out- raged, but more of it was approaching panic.