pressure cooker
Example Sentences
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Shale drillers have turned the biggest oil field in the U.S. into a pressure cooker that is literally bursting at the seams.
Human beings weren’t meant to create art in this particular kind of pressure cooker.
From Los Angeles Times
Like a pressure cooker, it is designed to hold together even as extreme amounts of steam build up inside it.
From Literature
This win is an important hurdle to overcome, one which should serve them well with the pressure cooker turning up a notch from now on.
From BBC
The trend is the product of a variety of forces that turn the NFL’s worst teams into pressure cookers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
