Sentence examples for time bomb later 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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Henderson himself was like a time bomb, later in the morning cursing at a reporter and launching into a tirade about a story that quoted Henderson accurately.

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"The mercenaries are a time bomb that will explode later in the country and in countries supporting them after they finish their terrorist missions in Syria," he said.

But environmentalists likened the submarine to a radioactive time bomb, warning that sooner or later, a catastrophic leak was inevitable.

Now, four months later, that time bomb seems likely to explode.

Some behaviors cause immediate danger; others, like a time bomb, can cause damage years later without warning.

Yet now, like a time bomb set to go off two decades later, it has swept six journalists into the center of the Plame investigation.

It has been a ticking time bomb.

My arse is a time bomb, lads.

Ticking time bomb is what people say.

"Walking time bomb".

"This is a ticking time bomb.

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