time bomb in English

noun

1

a bomb designed to explode at a preset time.

Phil reappeared just below Leif as the time bomb exploded.

noun

infernal machine

Use "time bomb" in a sentence

1. Cancer —A Ticking Time Bomb

2. That cute little time bomb, Diane!

3. Without medication, he's a time bomb.

4. The dead girl's a time bomb.

5. The whole goddamned platform is a time bomb.

6. “We Lived on Top of a Time Bomb”

7. Yes, rather like sitting inside a time bomb.

8. 7 These factors have created a demographic time bomb.

9. It's as if he's sitting on a time bomb.

10. We're tied up with a time-bomb between our heads.

11. You just told me there's a time bomb in my head.

12. Werther is a time bomb, and it needs to be defused.

13. I felt like a walking time bomb, set to detonate in sixty minutes.

14. The United Nations would now have a ticking time bomb on its hands.

15. The growing NCD and CVD burden is a time bomb for world health.

16. A senior aid worker calls the dam " a time bomb waiting to go off . "

17. Mr. Reese, Maddy's holding it together somehow but after that injection of heparin, Veldt's a time bomb.

18. And so, barring a miracle, the time bomb within post-war Europe’s beautiful ideal is about to explode.

19. When you are Backslidden, you are one of the most dangerous people on earth — a walking time bomb! Backslidden Jonah was a marked man

20. Any similar missile or explosive device used as a weapon, to disperse crowds, etc.: a time Bomb; a smoke Bomb. verb (used with object)

21. TUBERCULOSIS (TB) is man’s oldest infectious killer, and it remains such a serious health threat that the World Health Organization (WHO) compares it to a time bomb.

22. The Kurds in the north cleverly and adeptly used the window of opportunity that opened before them to seize de facto independence, though the key question of control over the northern city of Kirkuk remains a ticking time bomb.

23. The series enlivened the country's political discourse in a way few others have, partly because it brought to life the ticking time-bomb threat that haunted the Cheney faction of the American government in the years after 9/11."