"powder" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For a second thing, the town felt like a powder keg.
- He'd been a powder keg ever since he arrived at her town house.
- The county was a powder keg waiting for a match.
- The inner city may very well be a powder keg.
- "It was a powder keg - you could see the fire pressure building up inside," he said.
- For a while there he thought he'd set a match to a powder keg.
- This entire place, everything inside, is like a powder keg of current, I bet.
- But the signs were right; that ship was a powder keg if ever I saw one.
- At the other end of the social scale, a powder keg was forming.
- If the power plants couldn't be defended, then every one of them was a potential powder keg.
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