time bomb

noun

: a bomb so made as to explode at a predetermined time

: something with a potentially dangerous or detrimental delayed reaction

Examples of time bomb in a Sentence

He's a time bomb getting ready to explode. If we don't do something about the pollution problem, we'll be sitting on a ticking time bomb.

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Athena’s husband’s problems are a little less of a ticking time bomb, but equally contrived. —

Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024 Europe’s demographic challenges are becoming a ticking time bomb for the region’s economy, with Morgan Stanley delivering a grim prediction for its effects on GDP. —

Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 14 Oct. 2024 The ticking sound in capitals around the world is a demographic time bomb – of a sort unimaginable only a couple of generations ago. —

Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2024 Is a crisis inevitable? DC: One thing that is perhaps comforting is that there’s no ticking time bomb. —

Andy Mills, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for time bomb