How to Use of one kind/sort/type or another in a Sentence

of one kind/sort/type or another

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  • Some are in tents, most in tiny homes of one kind or another.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
  • But stains of one kind or another are all over Ruscha’s work.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • While most of the characters are grad students of one kind or another, not all are.
    Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • Bureaucrats of one sort or another have taken the place of princes and counts.
    David Pryce-Jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Some who made the journey were idealists of one sort or another.
    Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • So, yes, obviously, there is a weapon of one kind or another.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • Humans have been a presence of one kind or another in the region ever since.
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Each week, more than 1,000 people come through their doors to seek help of one kind or another.
    Dallas News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Consider that within a car, such as in the engine, there are likely many wheels of one kind or another.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Narcotics deaths almost all involve opioids of one type or another.
    Casey B. Mulligan, National Review, 8 Feb. 2022
  • All politicians are performers of one sort or another, the lucky ones by dint of natural gifts.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • Except for some years teaching English abroad, all of my jobs have been as a writer of one sort or another.
    Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But the reality is these are all drones of one kind or another, with different forms of propulsion.
    NBC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Still, even the best modern big-budget video game narratives tend to focus on power fantasies of one type or another.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2023
  • All writers are chameleons of one sort or another, blending into the background to better observe the world and people around them.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Nearly every American state offers hot springs of one sort or another.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • So many hugely talented players fall victim to pitfalls of one type or another early in their careers.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But every Hong Kong location required a big overhaul of one kind or another.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 17 June 2024
  • People commuting to work, in the grocery store, out for a run or in the gym are almost always wearing headphones of one kind or another.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Almost every season, the state of refereeing seems to be in a crisis of one kind or another, as game-swinging calls are missed or botched.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Often, regulations of one kind or another start in one state and then are reused or recast when other states opt to do something similar.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • All are artists of one sort or another, and all reside in homes that appear ripped from the pages of Architectural Digest.
    Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The most memorable productions may have involved classics of one kind or another, but these works were reborn in stagings that refused to play it safe.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Nearly all the candidates are promising to cut taxes of one sort or another to cushion the blow of a spiraling cost-of-living crisis.
    New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • People still listen to music in their car or on headphones, of course, and many others have multichannel audio setups of one kind or another.
    Michael Owen, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Many attract pollinators of one kind or another; some are edible or medicinal; and a few even produce winter seed for songbirds.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2022
  • While most lab tests report results on a scale of one kind or another, those from MRG-Effitas lean toward pass/fail.
    PCMAG, 14 June 2024
  • Many content creators seemed unfazed by data privacy concerns, noting that every social media platform comes with risks of one kind or another.
    Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • When asked about the biggest single problem facing the nation, roughly a third of Americans cite economic issues of one sort or another.
    Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Arkansas Methodists have been holding sunrise services of one kind or another for more than 100 years, in communities large and small.
    Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 11 Mar. 2023

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