NOUN
- keg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powder
- a potentially explosive state
How To Use powder keg In A Sentence
- The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
- The people are cruel and impressed by charades, the pomp of this place is oppressive, and I do believe you're sitting on a powder keg. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
- For the officers of the tiny garrison stationed at Camp Sheridan, the situation was akin to sitting on a powder keg.
- Ireland - home, as Joseph called it - had been a powder keg since the Easter Rising three years ago.
- Since the riot, the city has been a powder keg waiting to explode.
- Since then the powder keg has been waiting to explode again. Broken Lives
- Since the riot, the city has been a powder keg waiting to explode.
- 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.
- Bushland that is not burnt regularly turns into a powder keg, as the fuel load inexorably increases. Times, Sunday Times