How to Use anxiety attack in a Sentence

anxiety attack

noun
  • That woman ran out of the room, probably having her own anxiety attack.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Since the death of her second son, Ford has suffered from anxiety attacks and high-blood pressure.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • Could a ‘yoga pill’ provide calmness in the middle of an anxiety attack?
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
  • As the drugs and adrenaline wore off, doctors said, there were night terrors, anxiety attacks, tantrums.
    — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Could the antidote for anxiety attacks lie in something as simple as sour candy?
    — Sarah Garone, Health, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Kathy Griffin is opening up about what her frequent panic and anxiety attacks look like.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Michaels’ pick-me-up advice to Hader during his anxiety attack beind the scenes didn’t always work.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Serena being forced to have her daily anxiety attacks filmed?
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That first moment of panic varies for anxiety attack sufferers.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Too many modern comedies are jokeless anxiety attacks.
    — Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Nightmares and anxiety attacks trailed him, eased only after months of therapy.
    — USA Today, 10 Apr. 2023
  • If an anxiety attack is close to happening, focus on slowing your breathing or using a calming mantra.
    — Isadora Baum, Health, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The pain of the anxiety attack and the relief that your sister’s there and what would Simone do without Devon?
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
  • Between frequent anxiety attacks and threatening rival gangs, there's a lot Tony must deal with to survive.
    — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Manning's now 1-year-old Great Dane is training to be a service dog, learning how to press against the boy when his anxiety attacks.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Comes on Suddenly Shortness of breath that suddenly occurs could be linked to an anxiety attack.
    — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Of course, one person’s anxiety attack is merely another person’s drama.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • And though panic attacks are sometimes confused with anxiety attacks, the two are different, though sometimes rooted in different things.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • They were treated at a hospital, along with a 29-year-old woman who had an anxiety attack after witnessing the incident.
    — Escher Walcott, People.com, 16 June 2025
  • The Lopez family is back home now, albeit living amid a construction zone, showering at a neighbor’s house and having anxiety attacks at the thought of rain.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • This may include guiding someone who is blind; pulling a wheelchair; calming a person during an anxiety attack; or reminding them to take medication.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • The two incidents happening in tandem with each other resulted in anxiety attacks years later, which kicked in every time Cyrus had to perform.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The girls described the fallout — anxiety attacks, a loss of trust, problems focusing on schoolwork and a fear that the images may someday surface in unexpected ways.
    — CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • As a result, the veteran felt embarrassed and suffered an anxiety attack in the waiting room, prompting the service dog to act in line with her training, prosecutors said.
    — Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Yesterday’s perspective shift becomes today’s anxiety attack as Mercury and Uranus square off!
    — USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Signs of psychiatric distress, such as an anxiety attack or hallucinations, could also indicate a psychiatric cause of this symptom.
    — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2024
  • But slacking on your own preventative care and medical appointments just puts you at greater risk of experiencing a health issue—like Guthrie’s anxiety attack a few years ago.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 21 Jan. 2025
  • One day, as the Roxy show was getting big, Reubens stood across the street and gazed at Pee-wee’s name on the marquee, revelling in his dreams of stardom coming true—and then had an anxiety attack.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
  • At the time, Merriman, who was 83, was suffering blackouts and anxiety attacks and took a variety of medications, including one that caused brain fog.
    — Propublica, Dallas News, 18 May 2023
  • The filmmaker has candid discussions of mental health and the progressively worsening anxiety attacks related to movie promotion that have turned his dream job into a nightmare.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2025

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