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
-
The allies will leave a smouldering powder keg and a region that is more dangerous than ever.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Since the riot, the city has been a powder keg waiting to explode.
-
We're sitting on a powder keg of racial tension in the city.
-
Ever since the general election, when Sarah Palin fanned the flames of hatred, the fire has grown and it is surrounding a powder keg of chaos.
GA congressman describes hate mail, Nazi graffiti after protests
-
We're sitting on a powder keg of racial tension in the city.
-
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.
-
We're sitting on a powder keg of racial tension in the city.
-
His command is built on a tightrope of mixed emotions, a powder keg ready to explode at the slightest suggestion of disrespect.
-
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.
-
The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
-
Europe is sitting on a powder keg.
The Sun
-
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.
-
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.
-
Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg.
-
The build-up of forces in the region is creating a powder keg.