Sentences with phrase «useful in a pinch»

While high - interest debt should be avoided at all costs, a 0 - percent - interest offer could be useful in a pinch, so long as you pay it off before the deal expires.

I've bought the iPhone app and have found it mighty useful in a pinch.

Performance from both of the conventional engines is lackluster for this class, and the third - row seat remains cramped, so it's really only useful in a pinch and definitely only for kids.

Sony tried to do so four years ago, with its Reader PRS - 700, but that model's LED lighting, while useful in a pinch, barely reached the center of the page.

While this is a very poor use of points (you should always look for saver level awards), the ability to book an award seat at any time can be very useful in a pinch.

Apple's default keyboard will be a little more useful in a pinch with iOS 11, thanks to the addition of a one - handed mode.

This is useful in a pinch and certainly works well if you're on the road or work in a corporate environment where you're more likely to join a domain, but you will still have to use the Computer Name tab in the System Properties to change or join a workgroup.

The most obvious use case for a speaker on a smartwatch would be for notification sounds and taking calls, although playing music could also potentially be useful in a pinch.

Not exact matches

It lets you get hours of battery life from just a few minutes of charging, which is incredibly useful when you're in a pinch.

Being able to transfer money or check your balance in a pinch is a useful tool.

Making almond paste at home is easy, economical and especially useful when you need it in a pinch.

This is a particularly useful region because the oxygen isotopic composition of the seawater is largely determined by the flow of water through the Strait of Gibraltar, which in turn is sensitive to changes in global sea level — in a way like the pinching of a hosepipe.

This type of service is good to use if you're in a pinch and particularly useful if you're trying to lose weight.

Four passengers will ride in superlative comfort — five in a pinch — in a quiet, competent sedan that's useful far beyond its intended mission.

The touchscreen is «5 point capacitive» which means that the screen can track 5 individual points on the screen, useful to support hand gestures such as pinching gestures to zoom in and out.

Honestly, being able to pinch and zoom text in an ebook is a very useful feature.

It's a shame that eInk's refresh rates simply don't allow meaningful implementation of pinch to zoom, but double - tap - to - zoom - in - and - out could make PDFs, if not useful, at least bearable.

Both are rudimentary and subject to the display refresh issues inherent with E Ink, but in a pinch they might be useful.

Also, the multi touch feature is very useful when you're playing or just browsing the web, when gestures like pinch and zoom are very useful if dealing with pages rich in content.

These lighter - weight, less - expensive clippers not only could get the job done in a pinch, they were useful every day for scooping out pads and under eyes, for tummy and genital trims, and for poodle feet / face / tails.

I could also see it being useful for menus, web browsing, and in game maps (pinch and zoom, etc).

He still is fast and effective as a fighter while flying, though, and it is useful for evading large swarms of enemies in a pinch.

Insurance helps with that, but for immediate expenses that you need covered in a pinch, an emergency fund is much more useful.

Scroll in any direction, swipe through web pages, pinch, rotate, or Force click to unlock other useful capabilities.

It's not as powerful as a dedicated hardware flash system, but it can still be useful for lighting up a dark environment in a pinch.

But it's useful to have in a pinch when you need it.

The screen is small in size, so we had to bear that but still find it quite useful as the site renders fast and pinch - to - zoom in and out works pretty smooth.

The pen is just about as useful as any other active pen bundled with a Windows 10 machine: it's useful to doodle The Verge logo in a pinch, but not something I found integral to my day - to - day use.