all sorts of

phrase

: many different : all kinds of

knows all sorts of people

Examples of all sorts of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And not just any old 15 films, but the 15 films in Competition, drawn from films made all over the world by all sorts of extraordinary filmmakers! — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026

There are all sorts of giant gadgets for the games, which might involve skill or stamina or being smart and involve a giant gumball machine or lickable wallpaper, per the book and movie. — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026

Then evolutionary processes repurposed those controls to turn all sorts of genes off, leading to regulatory processes that, for example, produce dozens of cell types from the same genome. — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Mathematicians have cooked up all sorts of clever error-correcting codes (not all based on sphere packing) for varied applications. — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1558, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for all sorts of

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove
• hereinabove