How to Use time bomb in a Sentence

time bomb

noun
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  • He's a time bomb getting ready to explode.
  • If we don't do something about the pollution problem, we'll be sitting on a ticking time bomb.
  • The 19-year-old was a ticking time bomb ready to go off at any time.
    — Atlanta Life, ajc, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The brain is like a ticking time bomb whose clock starts at the moment of death.
    — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2019
  • But now, the concern is that 2021 may be a ticking time bomb.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • And the problem is, the tundra is this ticking time bomb.
    — Jonathan Blair, National Geographic, 9 July 2017
  • This was more of a ticking time bomb than a fast-acting burn.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Congress needs to act to defuse this ticking time bomb.
    — Jacob J. Lew For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The Democrats had a chance to disarm this ticking time bomb during the lame-duck session but chose not to.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Or maybe the knee is a time bomb that did not need this series extended to at least six games.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 15 June 2021
  • There's a ticking time bomb hanging over Nathan Brown's head.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The Left is a ticking time bomb, and the Right shows little sympathy for those purged by the ivory tower.
    — Aron Ravin, National Review, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Opening the Glasgow talks, Johnson did a bit about James Bond and a ticking time bomb.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The Arctic permafrost, frozen soil that is chock full of carbon, is a ticking time bomb.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2019
  • So that's going to be a bit of a ticking time bomb, going into the future episodes.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • For one, Burdi and Kahnle are ticking time bombs on the injury front.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 1 July 2024
  • The ticking time bomb on the ship where much of the action transpires is a nuclear warhead.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But the city and state have still not announced a long-term solution for the housing time bomb that concerned Vasquez.
    — Mick Dumke, ProPublica, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The current Broadway revival of 1776 is a ticking time bomb.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Plus, the time bomb on Stanley Cup Finalist coaches seems to have gone off last year.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • This is mass destruction, a time bomb right behind my yard.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Iran is facing a ticking time bomb: its aging air force.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2022
  • At the same time, the discovery of a corpse on his property becomes a ticking time bomb that can send him back to prison.
    — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • While Japan’s total death toll remains close to the number the U.S. sees in a day, the public fears Japan may be sitting on a ticking time bomb.
    — Isabel Reynolds, Bloomberg.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • So, in the episode's final moments, Amara agreed to become one with Chuck and Jack was left as a ticking time bomb, with Chuck nowhere in sight.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Thanks to Bennett's big-time bomb, the senior was selected as The Courier Journal's athlete of the week.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Now, the massive snowpack that piled up on the Sierra Nevada this winter is a dripping time bomb.
    — Bill Weir, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • But there is an enormous cloud over everything, which is a ticking time bomb.
    — Bridget Read, Vogue, 9 July 2019
  • Thinking about our combined finances feels like a ticking time bomb.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 3 July 2024
  • Some in the United States understand the pain of ordinary people as a ticking time bomb that the Iranian government will eventually be forced to defuse.
    — Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Foreign Affairs, 17 Mar. 2021

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