Sentence examples for there a pinch from inspiring English sources

Occasionally, Adrienne's traditional cuisine — featuring venison, rabbit, quail, duck and pheasant — flashes a cosmopolitan flair, with the inclusion of a red Thai curry here, mushroom risotto there, a pinch of quinoa, a dash of cranberries, a whiff of wasabi, or, in the case of polenta, a sprinkling of Gorgonzola.

He does crosswords and jigsaws, talks to his pet lizard and is a bland blend of several dozen "quirky" screen sleuths: a bit of Morse here, a dash of Columbo there, a pinch of Precious Ramotswe and a lug of Jonathan Creek to taste.

Telemedicine is there in a pinch!

It cut a little here, put on a little there, added a pinch of taxes and came up with a budget he said would cut more than a trillion dollars from the deficit over the next 10 years.

There is a pinch of irony in his use of the term.

There was a pinch in the air, a scrim over the sun, and smoke-gray clouds scudding across the horizon.

A number of examples are introduced and it is shown that there is a pinch point that defines the minimum temperature difference acceptable to achieve the heat transfer rates in the plant.

There is a pinch, to say no worse, to the way we live now, a sense of almost feverish momentum that makes it harder than ever to slow all the way down.

These young ladies — as they would certainly, though not quite convincingly, style themselves — are fragrant enough, and they dress as if Eisenhower were still in the White House, but there is a pinch of something rank in their condescension.

The prognostication from the working class on the Street is that while there is a pinch, it is moderate, and they do not expect to be standing on the unemployment line anytime soon.

The dark specks were raisins and there was a pinch of walnuts.