Sentence examples for settling bar from inspiring English sources

It's my personal belief that Wikipedia is best used — and probably most often used — not as a traditional encyclopedia, but in more creative ways, like settling bar bets and losing yourself in a downward spiral of hyperlinks, tracing your way from one entry to another until you realize you've happily wasted hours learning things you'll never think about again.

The device turns on instantly, runs for many months before two new AAA batteries are need, and is designed for lightning-fast searches for serious fact-seeking or simply expanding one's knowledge, settling bar bets or augmenting school textbooks.

To do basic research (or even just settle bar bets), no dedicated car lover's bookshelf is complete without them.

The free version still offers enough information to settle bar fights.

The web in our pocket allows us to settle bar bets and track down trivia with ease.

So just who are the people who keep the site up and running, making sure internet users across the world have some place to settle bar bets, research final papers, or pass the time when bored at work? Home: Santiago, Chile.

And also, "like Wikipedia, they will also be used to settle bar bets," Colbert joked.

The Guinness book of records was developed by Guinness and a friend to settle bar disputes, starting with theirs over the fastest land bird.

It is not a site to settle bar bets about sports or a place where you get 'Google-like,' undecipherable results which then need to be waded through like the flood last spring in your basement.

There's also the outdated Encyclopedia Britannica set she's trash-picked and brought in to help settle bar debates, the most prominent feature of an ever-fluctuating pile of texts dubbed The Dirty Frank's Resource Center.

It's handy for settling a bar-room argument, he said.