How to Use not the type in a Sentence

not the type

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• This is not the type of thing that can be done halfway.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
• This is not the type of film that is getting made, for the most part.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
• And of course this is not the type of movie angling for a sequel.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• This is not the type of plan that plays well in the public markets.
  — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2024
• My husband was not the type of person who liked to be told what to do.
  — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Rodney said his brother was not the type of person to back down.
  — Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 17 May 2024
• Simons, Billups said, is not the type of player to ask for the ball.
  — oregonlive, 11 Dec. 2022
• Nelly is not the type to be defeated for too long, so the end is a reset for her.
  — Iris Fanger, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2022
• No, not the type that keeps your lights on, although that would be interesting.
  — Rachel Nall, Msn, SELF, 18 Aug. 2022
• But that’s not the type of highlight the team was aiming for coming out of spring training.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• But Marshall says her mom was not the type of person who would pull a gun on anyone.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2025
• Nowadays, Ritter is hooked on quilts, but not the type one nestles in at night.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2022
• The evening signaled that this is not the type of show that will deaden an artist behind glass vitrines.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
• Adams also told them that her son is not the type of person to abandon his family.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• This was not the type of company that was going to plant a forest on campus.
  — Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• The team features alphas, said Holan, but not the type of players who demand the ball.
  — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2023
• This is not the type of win we are used to seeing, and certainly not one producers are used to showing.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• This is not the type of viral moment Post Consumer Brands hopes for.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
• Georgia Tech is probably not the type of school that's going to pull the plug this early.
  — Ralph D. Russo, ajc, 18 Sep. 2022
• This is the sturdy, foldable variety — not the type that splits open into two halves for stuffing.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
• For starters, this is not the type of concert that encourages listening in silence.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Worthington was not the type to sit on the fence, not even when under interrogation from the big boss.
  — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
• By his own admission, Mercer is not the type to let many people know him really well.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
• This is not the type of situation that these nonrefundable rates were designed for.
  — Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 22 July 2024
• Bourdain was not the type of celebrity who stuck to private lessons designed to keep faces unblemished and egos unbruised.
  — Alexander Darwin, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2021
• Tomas is not the type to paper over differences in order to sustain an unstable unity.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• His Bob is not the type of extremist leader who woos followers with pretty words and promises.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
• Elko’s not the type to get excited about early October standings.
  — David Whitley, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
• And anyways, Demna is not the type of designer to find refuge by hiding behind someone else’s ideas.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2023
• This is not the type of column in which the writer leans in and gives advice to the Democratic Party.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024