How To Use Sort In A Sentence

  • You would be hard pressed to find a young captain or major who hadn't flown combat sorties in the area of operations.
  • 8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
  • They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.” Storyteller
  • Letters from my family are sort of depressing, though sometimes my cousins write a few words that makes me laugh.
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  • The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • Oh - and I want a food mixer of some sort, because creaming butter and sugar by hand is not a lot of fun.
  • When the effused lymph is not absorbed it organizes, either forming a sort of internal cicatrix which is harder than the surrounding tissues or increasing the density of the part by augmenting the amount of plastic material within it. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
  • Fred Wye seemed like a decent sort of cuss, Peter thought, too bad his brother wasn't more like him. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • You come along with me and I'll introduce you (he's not what you call a refined sort of feller, yer know, 'he explained forbearingly,' but still we've always been friends in a way); you can't stop? The Giant's Robe
  • It continues as an usual inland resort set in woodland of silver birches, rhododendrons and conifers.
  • This sort of enamel work on a faceted metal body was copied from the enamelled European watches.
  • And I think the resort is about 25% overpriced, considering the worn-down state of the place and the fact you can get a two-night package at the definitely more upmarket Avillion in Port Dickson (also not really PD, but a dozen kilometres south) from about RM800 as well. Vacations: Tiara Beach Resort — Fusion Despatches
  • I'm pleased I didn't get that job, in a funny sort of way.
  • Do they have to change their diet, is there a dietary intervention as well to get that sort of weight loss, or do they just continue as before?
  • This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint. Archive 2009-03-01
  • I had always envisioned a sort of heroic rescue, but those were only dreams.
  • Adjacent to the restaurant is a bar, which is well stocked with an assortment of alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic drinks.
  • The endotoxins exuded are cell - wall constituents that are sort of like pheromones or germ sweat. T.S. Wiley: Can Sleep Loss Destroy Your Immune System?
  • What's more, the mountain was haloed by phosphorescent blue bands of some sort of energy crackling all around it.
  • Meanwhile, all sorts of things that at one time or another were considered tests for artificial intelligence — playing chess, doing integrals, doing autonomous control — have been cracked in algorithmic ways. Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge
  • If you're going to resort to the tried-and-true missionary position, perform oral sex on her first or take you time to ensure she's really wet before penetrating her.
  • There are all sorts of activities for kids at the camp site.
  • It's the sort of thing I tend to call a batshit story, and though this term has not caught on as the latest literary, uh, movement, it's the only label that seems to fit so much of the sort of writing I love. Archive 2005-12-01
  • The pet shop clerk had been helpful, showing him an assortment of mice and guinea pigs and even a pair of canaries, but in the end, Enoch had settled on the brown-and-white hamster.
  • This link is sort of off-topic but really not, as it's yet another case (as in the present one) of the media doing their level best to shout down "the critics" -- the nattering nabobs of negativism -- and then, years later, admitting that the "gadflies" were right all along, and that what looked like a scam, walked like a scam, and quacked like a scam was -- quelle surprise! Funky math with Mark Larabee (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • I have a feeling that someone has all the email from both accounts, and they are right now in some sort of shady deal to sell the data to $someone (or perhaps to Palin herself). MetaFilter Projects
  • If you were to take out two or three shrubs to let the remainder breathe, what sort of rhythm would be left? Times, Sunday Times
  • I think that while full-on female displays will evoke an easy and instinctual hormone rush -- which, as I said, might be a good complement to a melee brawl -- most intelligent people will agree that some sort of subtlety in sexuality is appealing on more levels simultaneously. Archive 2008-02-01
  • The drug smugglers used an assortment of inventive packaging to hide their illegal shipments.
  • Saxby Bridge has enthusiastically marketed all sorts of tax effective schemes involving things like tea trees, macadamias, wine and even online lingerie.
  • It's easy to see how their pictures might have some sort of religious significance. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • Tonight is blissfully planless, and will likely feature sorting through stories with Adam and catching up on the TiVo stuff. Odin's Day
  • Most of us tend to entertain our friends in the family room; a formal dining room becomes a mail sorting place, and a formal living room is a museum for curios and uncomfortable furniture.
  • They watched in wonder as bankers, industrialists and assorted spivs piled up more and more riches.
  • I think you could get aroundthe police strategy discussed above by Orin Kerr arrest the potential non-consenting guy first with this sort of blanket prohibition. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
  • Hopefully you'll sort any hitches so the whole wedding runs like clockwork. The Sun
  • Certain batik designs, like the parangrusak motif, are still considered sacred as they were specially designed for sultans, their consorts and crown princes.
  • Those who were less keen to compete for migrants could resort to convicts as casual labour.
  • Thus the various ritual capacities of North Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers typify the sort of interpersonal agency implicit in Melanesian personal partibility.
  • Most fledgling parents or parents-to-be feel duty-bound to invest in some sort of guide to looking after a new baby, and publishers, naturally, feel duty-bound to take advantage of that by churning out one guide after another.
  • There are chocks of assorted age and make, battered into shapeless bashies, as well as many fine #1 Friends, sunk and overcammed deep into fingercracks which refuse to give up their dead.
  • The convention allows for lawful detention of children for the shortest possible period of time and as a matter of last resort.
  • According to John Ralson, who apparently has some sort of Avatar-like connection to all living things in the Silver State, Berkley had been weighing the decision for a while but ultimately decided that the opportunity was too good to pass up. HUFFPOST HILL - Congress Passes Budget, Catastrophe Postponed
  • After being faced with the "extortionate" demand, Lee and others at his resort called the Canadian consulate and department of foreign affairs emergency line, only to be told to pay up Toronto Sun
  • The disgusting partiality shown in the accusations was disrelished, as was the resort that had been had to torture. History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6)
  • Players should now sort out the cards according to suit hearts, clubs, etc.
  • Huh, a good sport, also helped HuffPostTech turn him into a "lolcat" of sorts using a screenshot from a video of a photoshoot he'd done in the past (scroll down for the picture). Ben Huh Stars As A Lolcat, Talks Twitter, Memes, And Going Viral (PICTURE)
  • Public housing has been transformed into an ever-diminishing refuge of last resort.
  • Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
  • As such, the set was both heavy on the new material and encore-less, a sort of brilliant means of creating a Pavlovian effect on the assembled concert-goers.
  • I am clearly an unorganized slattern of the worst sort.. Updatery
  • Sales catalogues are often heavily financed by these sorts of rebates and discounts.
  • I certainly don’t think that Iranian popular discontent should be disregarded, but we’ve been hearing these sorts of arguments about the restive Iranian population for years, and while I have no reason to believe that they aren’t true, Khamenei and his allies have consistently proven expert at deflecting calls for reform and preserving their regime, the main levers of which remain firmly in Khamenei’s hands. Wonk Room » For More Tehran-ology
  • There were hosts on it and about it, and then Dr Duthoit forgot all about what we call the realities and facts of life, forgot that this sort of thing does not happen, and watched what was happening. Dr Duthoit’s Vision
  • We live in a mixed society now and this sort of thing is disgusting and shouldn't be tolerated.
  • Bianca had on the same sort of top as me but the one she wore had sleeves while mine was sleeveless and she had on a short denim mini.
  • A glance at any probate casebook will demonstrate how often solicitous distant relatives, keen to do fetching and carrying as well as to sort out troublesome financial affairs, show up in the declining years of lonely old people.
  • From a pure box-office point of view, all of us can surely relish the sort of muscular macho, the one-on-one confrontation on view when a Phil Vickery meets a Christian Califano.
  • Use the rest of the butter to grease a large baking dish (the sort of thing you would make lasagne in). Times, Sunday Times
  • I would revoke all building codes other than those where a failure of a building can affect neighboring properties: requirements for fire-retardant materials in roofing materials, or inspections to assure the structural integrity of a building taller than its distance from the property line are the sorts of things that come immediately to mind. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does the Supposedly Superior Expertise of Regulators Justify Libertarian Paternalism?
  • He hates physical contact of any sort - he doesn't even like to shake your hand.
  • MAGGIANO: The two others are sort of what I call refinance roulette, where someone comes in and convinces you that the way to get out of your mortgage problem is to refinance again. CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2007
  • Sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers, and an assortment of other creatures were awake and bustling that summer morning.
  • They shook hands in a very male, unaffectionate sort of way.
  • He considers the mode of assorting the cards in each hand; often counting trump by trump, and honor by honor, through the glances bestowed by their holders upon each. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • All the inmates had to be protected and watched over, and any problems that arose would have to be sorted out at once.
  • Stay to the hearer of is an enjoy of fantasy sort.
  • Many teachers and students resort to Beidaihe beach in the summer vacation.
  • I was about to dismiss this as a sort of think-tanky special interest political advocacy group, but then I remembered that mothers are good. The Volokh Conspiracy » Mothers Against Debt
  • The election might be a catalyst for change of the sort that the junta had not foreseen. Times, Sunday Times
  • This sort of detailed description is of limited use. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • His left leg was going into muscle spasms of some sort and he clutched at his knee with frustration.
  • Also among the rich assortment of intriguing pieces that fill each page are panels dating from c.1600, decorated with saints standing beneath baldacchinos.
  • Now, from the left, comes a ragtag assortment of college kids, labor unionists, conspiracy theorists and others who've taken to the streets in protests dubbed "Occupy Wall Street.
  • Each evening, before retiring, the careful wife sees that a hocho, or kitchen knife, is laid upon the kitchen floor, and covered with a kanadarai, or brazen wash - basin, on the upturned bottom of which is placed a single straw sandal, of the noiseless sort called zori, also turned upside down. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
  • These are ridiculous enough on their own without resorting to ageism or sizeism. Times, Sunday Times
  • The concert footage, captured in color, is bright and brassy, and even with all the fancy lighting and video backdrops, the transfer never resorts to flaring or bleeding.
  • That represents something of the heart of God as expressed in Genesis 3, because now we see the divorce papers being finalized as God disannuls the relationship He had with humanity and as the man and woman sort out memories of a lost opportunity. FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST
  • The touch of ice wine lends the drink the slightest honeyed, apricot sort of nose, but doesn't interfere with the brisk essence of the classic martini, which is, above all, dry.
  • His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his _Comedie Humaine_. Balzac
  • He drives a top of the range Mercedes but has not indulged himself with a fleet of the sort of flash cars favoured by some in the football world.
  • What sort of music would you listen to if you did have a whizzy waterproof iPod and didn't have to concentrate and count? Rebecca Adlington | Small Talk
  • French warplanes based in Italy report to NATO's command headquarters in Naples while aircraft flying sorties off the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle report directly to French military commanders in Paris. Political Gridlock at NATO
  • Surgery is a last resort, though it sometimes is necessary.
  • Anyway, she was a vivacious, ebullient sort of girl, and I took an immediate liking to her.
  • I'm not sure the term insufferable boor is quite adequate here, I'm not saying that he's entirely without humor, but it's the sort of humor that is always tempered by a reminder of how much money he has and how he is holding it over his adult children. Outfoxed Diary Entry
  • There are so many ways to beat boredom without going near a slots game of any sort. The Sun
  • General sorting categories are whites, light colors, bright or deep-colored materials, permanent press, delicates, and clothes for the dry cleaners.
  • A lone fisherman sorts through his gear as we approach.
  • We just want it sorted as there's no point binning them. The Sun
  • As a result, some politicians have begun to think of war, not as the high-risk recourse of last resort, but as an attractive foreign policy option in times of domestic scandal or economic decline.
  • The same logic extends easily to all sorts of other apparently worthy causes.
  • Old colophons on school books sport two sorts of logo: oblong whorls, rococo scrolls - both in worn morocco.
  • These are not the sorts of cases where prosecutorial discretion naturally disfavors prosecution.
  • It all makes me feel rather sorry for men: as if being present at the birth has become some sort of test of moral fibre.
  • I applaud the author for avoiding the first time novelist's trap of resorting to cliches and stereotyping.
  • The seven young musicians play an exciting assortment of instruments including bodhran, accordion, bouzouki, guitar, bass, fiddle, Asturian bagpipes and flute.
  • I had refastened it in a simple bowknot, a sort of knot which on Gor, in certain contexts, as in the present context, is spoken of as a slave knot. Renegades Of Gor
  • It's not sort of limp, it has a voluptuousness to it. Opulently Hidden, In Plain Sight
  • What the UN and the West are doing is the colonial thing of merely resorting to bully-boy tactics, Neither would attempt to pass judgement let alone threaten to intervene using military force, in any election held in the Russian Federation or attempt to invade China because it does not have democractic government. Ivory Coast's descent into madness
  • This sort of decentralising of empowerment would be welcome if it was not for the government's ambitious home-building programme. Further urban sprawl solves nothing | Editorial
  • What the seller is asking for is some sort of deposit. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • The resort is popular for stag and hen trips. The Sun
  • Health and education are the sort of bread-and-butter issues that people vote on.
  • The crowd is chock-a-block with people who like all kinds of music, and there are only very few acts that can cater for such an assorted group of people.
  • On the surrounding waters of the resort isle, dive, windsurf, water - ski, even sail a catamaran.
  • Then her arms come under the back to form a sort of strap and she holds on to her thighs. Times, Sunday Times
  • For instance, a viola da gamba is sort of cello, and a rebec is a kind of violin. The Golden Age of Publicity #7
  • The Vasa Trainer operates on a sled that rolls on a track and comes equipped with all sorts of cords, straps, pulleys and a slew of accessories.
  • What sort of unarmed combat skills do they teach in the KGB? Times, Sunday Times
  • The Scottish Medicines Consortium has previously accepted this product for use in patients in the 12-17 years age group, for the treatment of erosive reflux oesophagitis, the long-term management of patients with healed oesophagitis to prevent relapse, and the symptomatic treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. SMC Issues Positive Recommendation on esomeprazole 10mg (Nexium(R)) For Children Aged one to 11 Years old in Scotland With Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD) - Yahoo! Finance
  • Act Three ends powerfully, with the village in flames, good Soviet citizens hanging by their necks, and keening women, including one who is given a ‘mad scene’ of sorts.
  • In contrast to less specific methods of treatment, the social skill training approaches have the advantage of lending themselves to this sort of concise, nonmystical explanation. Planned Short-Term Treatment
  • The actress let out a scream as she tobogganed down a hill at the ski resort of Banff in Alberta, Canada.
  • But for all its glories, Victorian was also a time of grinding hard work, belching mill chimneys and the sort of poverty scarcely imaginable today.
  • This was the sort of lean and mean memo an entrepreneur has to love. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
  • Assuming that I don't have some sort of malignant brain tumor *knocks wood furiously*, it must be that this alien life-form, this adorable-but-nonetheless-parasitic superbeing, is sucking every nutrient from my body and turning these to his own nefarious supergrowth purposes. Pass The Smelling Salts
  • To be a man's name it would have to be a contraction of Junianus, of a sort of contraction which is otherwise unattested.
  • I've been sorting out my study all day, but it's such a mess I don't feel I'm getting anywhere.
  • In Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, the "telescreen" compulsorily present in every house is not only a television broadcasting from the outside, but a sort of CCTV camera, observing the people in the room, shouting at them if they fail to meet the standards ordained by the state of which Big Brother is the dictator, always watching them. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • By resorting to nonwar means of achieving his objectives, he would earn worldwide acclamation and gratitude by letting peace prevail, following the wise old saying, "Discretion is the better part of valor. Mail Call: Show Us The Proof
  • The city was overcrowded with tall skyscrapers and noisy vehicles of all sorts.
  • An assortment of leather sheaths hang like washing on a line in a mocked-up Saxon trader's stall.
  • In the last resort we can always walk home.
  • There is serious reason to believe, though the details cannot be gone into here, that the lorum is represented by the "armill", though this is now a sort of stole which two or three centuries back was tied at the elbows. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • a rapid sort of first "intellection," an error that made all departments of education so trivial, assumptive and dogmatic for centuries before Comenius, Basedow and Pestalozzi, has been banished everywhere save from moral and religious training, where it still persists in full force. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
  • We work hard to build strong and fruitful relationships with companies such as Park Resorts. Times, Sunday Times
  • The status of a character trait as a virtue need not be a fixed matter, but a matter complexly interrelated with the sort of society in which it appears.
  • Detmar is the sort of chap who would once have been described as a milksop; when Issie met him in 1988 he was 25, but so close to his mother he used to shop for her sanitary towels. Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow
  • Its Awesome Foursome weekend, based in the Austrian resort of Zell am See, in the Kitzbühler Alps, features white-water rafting, canyoning, mountain-biking and glacier-skiing.
  • And Mr. Buckner's best-known moment—a game-ending fielding error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, after which his Red Sox lost to the Mets in Game 7—can be seen as sort of the ur-"Larry David moment. Showing His Enthusiasm
  • You have to have some sort of engagement,  some sort of a carrot that not only entices that actual government but makes sure that other forces within Iran know there's an alternative. A Firmer Hand
  • It's only four dudes, but together they play drums, guitar, keys, upright bass, trumpet, flugel horn and assorted "electronics. The Drift - Invisible (Music (For Robots))
  • The logistics of buses and tour guides in each area is still being sorted out but the idea is rolling out with enthusiasts in each town planting heritage roses around tourism sites.
  • They reduce the frequency and intensity with which the authorities must intervene as lenders of last resort to avert systemic crises.
  • This sort of immense architectonical precision does not stop the piece from revealing candid airs here and there. Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
  • Unlike the other two major ski resorts, Borovets and Pamporovo, which have been specially developed as ski resorts, Bansko is a town with centuries of history.
  • They were nervy sorts, fidgety, who watched your hands as you used the mobile or hunted in your bag for something but would never catch your eye.
  • He said: ‘We have had bricks, snooker balls, missiles shot by catapults and all sorts.’
  • Fortunately, she was lapping the soup up with great neatness and delicacy, which was sort of a relief: Jinx had been afraid she was going to slop it all over the table.
  • Meanwhile, BAC transforms itself into a holiday resort, complete with beaches, museums and palaces.
  • All sorts of treasures have been found in the pile of waste, which is why the council receives income from the salvage contractor to help provide funding for a recycling advisor at the site.
  • What you are putting forward is a pluralistic, 'there is no real right and wrong' sort of view.
  • Quand tu aura reduit la paste en ceste sorte, estans la et applanis auec le rouleau en fueilles grosses ou menues, ainsi que bon te semblera: et par ainsi en formeras aussi telle chose que tu voudras, comme dessus est dit. Savoring The Past
  • He seems to be an actor perfectly suited to kitchen sink dramas in an age when demand from that sort of awkward, angry character is declining.
  • Such completely general terms as ‘thing’ ‘entity’ or ‘object’, on Dummett's view, are not genuine sortal terms, since they fail to provide any criteria of identity.
  • There have been a few teething problems, sorted out by a computer whiz-kid friend of my husband and - embarrassingly - my eight-year-old daughter.
  • It's the sort of consignment Jan takes with her whenever she visits Romania, along with contraceptive coils and coffee.
  • Actual punishment should only be used as a last resort; a sharp tap with a cardboard strip is quite sufficient.
  • It's a falling off sort of place where the ‘real’ slides into a chthonic state of being.
  • He took to antiquarianism, which is a sort of philtre, driving its votaries mildly insane, and filling them with emotions which, on the whole, are probably more often happy than grievous. Hawthorne and His Circle
  • He knew perfectly that I recommended nothing of the sort, and he must have been very angry to indulge in this _boutade_. The Path Of Duty
  • There is, if I can use the expression, a sort of gangmaster cultural phenomenon in this, that you recruit top people who really do make a difference, who really do move markets and get business and are really high achievers. Evening Standard - Home
  • Swindon Council has called in the bailiffs to sort out motorists dodging parking fines.
  • The couple sorted out their problems and moved abroad. The Sun
  • Additionally there will be handsome trophies and holiday packages to Sri Lanka resorts.
  • I'm not too hot with electronics, so I managed to enlist my brother to sort the circuits out for me.
  • Whether Terence O'Neill was committed to promoting the sorts of reforms which might have satisfied the Catholic minority is unknown.
  • Miliband decided to risk serious barracking by telling the TUC he could not support the strikes, even though industrial action was sometimes a necessary last resort. Ed Miliband endures rough ride at TUC after criticism of pension strike action
  • The landscape is totally different from that of the area surrounding the resorts, with a wide variety of spectacular plant life, including the saguaro cacti and century plants.
  • When you come to the world of weblogs for the first time you will probably find to your horror that they are written by foul-mouthed illiterates, self-obsessed juveniles (of all ages), assorted bigots and swivel-eyed fruitcakes.
  • (Soundbite of kalimba) Mr. BERGMAN: And then there's another one, this is the - the one that I was just telling you about, the street sweeper tines from the Eastern Market, and this one is very sort of strange instrument, but it's not one that we use on too many songs. NOMO: The Sonic Maelstrom Of 'Ghost Rock'
  • This exceptionality allows the establishment of a sort of democracy: we are all equal because we all have the right to break the law’.
  • They let in all sorts of riff-raff here, don't they?
  • A harpoon is a sort of a spear, to which a long rope is attached. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 19, March 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
  • I'm still worried that it implies that I'm the sort of crazy guy that stands in the pub quoting catchphrases from well-known British comedy programmes.
  • Bags of incoming mail were received and sorted on the trolleys as they moved through the city. Smithsonian Insider
  • We felt we should just try and get it sorted and get him fit again. Times, Sunday Times
  • The doctor could not help laughing at the sort of "moue" she made: when he laughed, he had something peculiarly good-natured and genial in his look. Villette
  • Sortals are entirely formed by our minds, in the light of the properties perceived to be in the world. Substance
  • Many other sketches featured similar hard-men, many of them caricaturing the sort of psychopathic gangsters who would become prevalent in British films of the late 1990s.
  • The fulgurator was a sort of auto-propulsive engine, of peculiar construction, charged with an explosive composed of new substances and which only produced its effect under the action of a deflagrator that was also new. Facing the Flag
  • It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
  • What sort of shampoo do you use?
  • All in all it was the sort of night to make Edgar Allan Poe salivate at its possibilities. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
  • This was the sort of lean and mean memo an entrepreneur has to love. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
  • That made him careless about liberty and willing to use the authority of the state to create the sort of society he wanted to see.
  • It was certainly entertaining and one could not help but feel sorry for him for being involved with such a grasping, shallow woman of the sort portrayed here!
  • More than 50,000 "kissing fish" have been put into the hot spring pool at the tourist resort of Holiday Beach in Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province. Kissing Fish Therapy | Impact Lab
  • Despite their differences, there is no reason the two sides should have to resort to force to resolve the matter.
  • Pets are permitted at the resort by prior arrangement.
  • In this resort you can enjoy all the comfort and convenience of modern tourism.
  • She told me the camp was a vacation resort belonging to her family.
  • Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own
  • And as an ancient sage once said, ‘Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.’
  • And they are eating these sorts of wild crops, or non-traditional food crops such as sago.
  • But while it's consistently interesting and hypnotically watchable, its manipulative techniques should remind us what sort of thing a movie is.
  • They all do so wearing the right sort of clothes. Times, Sunday Times
  • I don't think people really mind about that sort of thing unless there's been a really grisly murder on the property. The Sun
  • A jilted man takes a trip to Hawaii, only to find his ex is staying at the same resort. The Sun
  • In appearance and atmosphere he was a strapping big college man, smooth-faced and easy-mannered, clean and simple and wholesome, with a known record of being a splendid athlete and an implied vast possession of cold culture of the inhibited sort. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
  • The final selection of four papers explores an even more miscellaneous assortment of problems.
  • There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin. Power, corruption and lies
  • Maison Française which is sort of a monthly event we started some two and a half years ago in which we applied a conversation between a French writer and myself and which is devoted to his actual work. Blog of a Bookslut
  • The toro, for me, was wasted a little on the grill, but all sorts of vegetable things did well. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mist hung in a sort of cocoon about them, blotting out the rest of the forest.
  • What follows is a sort of addled odyssey fuelled by comic self-aggrandisement and rage against the various machines of money-making. Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre
  • Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Les Miserables
  • It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun

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