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a problematic situation that will eventually become dangerous if not addressed
the refugee camp is a ticking bomb waiting to go off
India is a demographic time bomb - a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time
How To Use time bomb In A Sentence
- Yet because many of the environmental consequences are hidden from view and from our national income accounts, we sit atop ticking ecological time bombs.
- German saboteurs plotted a wartime bombing campaign in Britain using exploding cans of processed peas, according to secret files made public for the first time today.
- Meanwhile, all of Africa and large parts of Asia would lie dark and unlit as if during a wartime bombing raid, a fate that one or two places down there would actually be enduring.
- These factors have created a demographic time bomb. 2.
- Her footsteps and the faint noise of her limbs striking one another as she walked sounded like the mechanism of a time bomb.
- He described global warming as "an environmental time bomb ticking away".
- I've been waiting all my life to find what I've got with Eddie and when it finally arrives, I'm a walking time bomb. WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY
- Faced with this new threat, this time bomb ticking in my trousers, I know that I must do something. LOVE YOU MADLY
- According to Edward Sion, Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Villanova University, T Pyxidis may be in fact a "ticking time bomb," and potential threat to the Earth if it were to go supernova, which it may do sometime in the future, though very, very far in the future on our timescale: by Scion's calculations, at least 10 million years. Could A Faraway Supernova Threaten Earth? | Universe Today
- It lay there, inert under his jacket sleeve, throbbing gently like a time bomb. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
