Sentence examples for one a time bomb from inspiring English sources

Jimmy, unfortunately, has brought his suspicious sister, Jamie (Alicia Goranson), "as backup," and her presence is a disquieting one, a time bomb that detonates just before the play's end.

Michael Hayden played Billy not as a large, gruff man, but as a frustrated smaller one, a time bomb waiting to explode.

The boss of one learning disability charity warned: "We are sitting on a time bomb and watching it tick".

He sits on a time bomb.

"We are sitting on a time bomb.

"Every one of us is already a time bomb".

The newly appointed City minister, Lord Myners, was dispatched to put him at ease and Hester agreed to take on the task that he has since likened to defusing a time bomb – and one with a balance sheet, at £2.2 trillion, that was bigger than the annual output of the UK economy.

As one frustrated resident explained, "Colon is a time bomb.

Thus, it is our duty to utilize the opportunity unless it will be a time bomb blast at one time in future which can completely distract the social, political, and economic stability of the country.

Mitochondrial disease was described by one participant as a "waiting game" and a "time bomb" [no.26].

The clip opens on a close-up of someone setting a time bomb (Fig. 1).