NOUN
- keg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powder
- a potentially explosive state
How To Use powder keg In A Sentence
- Original sin, he said, turned the human heart into a fomes peccati (tinderbox or powder keg of sin), operative at all times, even in the regenerate.
- The build-up of forces in the region is creating a powder keg.
- Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg.
- The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
- The place was a powder keg.
- The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
- You can shoot a rope that springs trappers' mantraps back onto them, drop a boulder onto a thug's head, or push wagons full of powder kegs toward a cabin full of enemies and take out a whole crowd with a single, well placed shot.
- Europe is sitting on a powder keg. The Sun
- The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
- Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg.
