Sentence examples for handy alternative from inspiring English sources

It is the customer who thinks Uber is a handy alternative to conventional cabs.

With the authorities blocking text-messaging on cellphones, Twitter has become a handy alternative for information-hungry Iranians.

Despite the clunky organization of its mobile app, though, My Cloud is a handy alternative to a cloud service.

The determination of real samples indicated that the constructed nitrate-selective electrode was capable of monitoring nitrate in drinking water, providing a handy alternative for routine analysis.

This year briefs and undershirts, influenced by boy's underwear, are a handsome and handy alternative to last year's mesh G-strings and bras.

(Containers with built-in reservoirs are a handy alternative for the unreliable and the lazy, not that you can't be both).

As in Hitchcock's "Psycho," when the sudden killing off of the point-of-view character forced the audience to latch on to the handiest alternative, Ms. Salt now becomes our protagonist, our surrogate, and begins her own spiraling descent into madness.

If you don't have a blow torch or anything like it handy, an alternative is to caramelize the sugar in a pot and then pour it over the custard, making a thicker layer than usual.

I thought, 'I knew this door would come in handy!'" Bring an alternative point of view.

A little blast of holiday cheer comes in handy when the alternative is thinking about Jerry Sandusky.

Ideally we'd sit down together and pick you out a lovely green car, like the passive consumers we've been taught to be (car dealership Motorparks has a handy guide to alternative vehicles).