Sentence examples for time bomb about from inspiring English sources

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Walking time-bomb.

A person whose behaviour is erratic and totally unpredictable is a walking time-bomb.

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She replied in a strong voice 'I'm GAY,' let it rest!!!I feel that this harassment is a time bomb about to explode.

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For those who took out the loans in late 2004 and early 2005, "their payment time bomb is about ready to explode," he said.

The chapters in "Fosse" are titled like a countdown clock, inching toward mortality (Sixty Years, Forty-Five Years), as if Fosse were a time bomb perpetually about to explode.

Trapped on a train car equipped with a time bomb, Mulder, about to escape, is attacked brutally by the Red Haired Man, a Men in Black assassin.

They hear Lebanese politicians suggesting that they are a "ticking time-bomb" about to explode in cross-border raids into Israel.

In the late '70s, Susan was captain of the Syracuse University women's swimming team and unaware of the DES (diethylstilbestrol) time bomb that was about to go off.

"That time bomb is now exploding or about to explode".

In the 1950s, movies such as Rebel without a Cause and All That Heaven Allows were about repression as a ticking time bomb, but Chahine's film about sexual desire with no outlet was one of the biggest cinematic bombs of the decade.

From the torture memos to the "ticking time bomb" scenario, the political debate about torture and other "dark side" practices has been about eliminating those consequences, making the dark side not the exception but the norm.

"Is this a time bomb that you're talking about, or is this a firecracker or is this a matter of caution?" Mr. Vallone asked.

The governor's latest warning is about a time bomb -- the exploding cost of public employee benefits that, if unchecked, will turn Jon's (or Doug's) long-term presidential dreams into a nightmare.

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