1.   Children are trained not to pick up stray toys or knapsacks, and to tell by their dress if strangers might be primed to explode.

2.   My hands are clammy, my head primed to explode.

3.   Reid judges her performance exactly, teetering on the edge of sanity, a bomb surely primed to explode, but when?

4.   The grenade, which was not primed to explode, was the latest in a string of threats against the general.

5.   A few days ago, a gaz container primed to explode was defused on the Algiers to Oran railway line in the volatile Chlef region west of the capital.

6.   It remains unfinished business, primed to explode again during the tournament.