How To Use Powder keg In A Sentence
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The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
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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
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For the officers of the tiny garrison stationed at Camp Sheridan, the situation was akin to sitting on a powder keg.
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Ireland - home, as Joseph called it - had been a powder keg since the Easter Rising three years ago.
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Since the riot, the city has been a powder keg waiting to explode.
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Since then the powder keg has been waiting to explode again.
Broken Lives
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Since the riot, the city has been a powder keg waiting to explode.
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The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
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Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg.
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Bushland that is not burnt regularly turns into a powder keg, as the fuel load inexorably increases.
Times, Sunday Times
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The allies will leave a smouldering powder keg and a region that is more dangerous than ever.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since the riot, the city has been a powder keg waiting to explode.
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We're sitting on a powder keg of racial tension in the city.
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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
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We're sitting on a powder keg of racial tension in the city.
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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.
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The build-up of forces in the region is creating a powder keg.
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We're sitting on a powder keg of racial tension in the city.
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His command is built on a tightrope of mixed emotions, a powder keg ready to explode at the slightest suggestion of disrespect.
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The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
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Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg.
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The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
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Europe is sitting on a powder keg.
The Sun
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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.
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The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
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The place was a powder keg.
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The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
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Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg.
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The build-up of forces in the region is creating a powder keg.
