How to Use of the sort in a Sentence
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Her shots betrayed none of the sort of tension that Jabeur’s shots did.
—Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
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What are some of the sort of peak experiences along the way over this past year?
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2022
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There’s no central touchscreen of the sort most modern cars have.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
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That was a childish goal of the sort that had led her to challenge deëxtinction for so many years.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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Be wary of the sort of peer group who are a ton of fun but don’t necessarily watch out for you.
—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024
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It is seen as an example of the sort of mistakes the club has made since the title success.
—Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
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With a laugh, Thomas admitted nothing of the sort has happened to him.
—Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022
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New election laws ensure that nothing of the sort will ever happen.
—Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
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This isn't to say Portis should be given 20+ shots per game, or anything of the sort.
—Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
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The study in question, however, didn’t conclude anything of the sort.
—Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Oct. 2024
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None led to large open pits of the sort Hudbay plans, but remnants and rock piles are apparent around the range.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
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While the pictures and video are a pretty good example of the sort of thing that Robust.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 July 2022
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About the previous sentence, nothing about it is a call to put women in their place, or anything of the sort.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
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Earth impactors of the sort that brought down the dinosaurs are now usually looked upon as relics of the distant past.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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And try to summon, from our pallid, hazy situation, vistas of the sort that draw so sweet and pure a gaze.
—David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
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Yet the bond vigilante crowd doesn’t tend to believe in miracles of the sort to which Taleb refers.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
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Both sets of rocks were of the sort that had formed from sediments deposited on shallow coastal seafloors near some of the rare pieces of land.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
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Gein never did anything of the sort in real life and was regarded as a model patient.
—Jr Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
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Building a true intelligence of the sort that lives inside a robot is a grand challenge.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
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There is plenty of the sort of officious nit-picking beloved of sports authorities.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
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Experts have noted that SpaceX had nothing of the sort present at their Starship launch.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
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The errand that nearly cost Ralph Yarl his life was of the sort that falls to older brothers everywhere.
—Christine Hauser, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
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My travels were a form of patriotism, though not of the sort currently on brand in Washington.
—Beverly Gage, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2026
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The best way to heal the wound is through poetry and music, of the sort that doesn’t offer propositions but casts spells and enacts rituals.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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Is this a trick question of the sort that Hessler depicts his children completing in third-grade math class, the kind designed to trip students up?
—The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
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Trump in turn has so far poured cold water on the idea of any rift or falling-out between the two men, at least of the sort their detractors have often predicted.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 5 Apr. 2025
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Yet this promising start devolved into a prime example of the sort of cynical assholery that today would be called a hot take, or even clickbait.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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There appeared to be no evidence in the committee of the sort of bipartisanship Gray had urged.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2025
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Because there is also a lot of football in the four episodes—spectacular highlights of the sort to delight even a person who doesn’t like football.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
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After eight games of the sort of tennis the world has come to expect from these two stars, Djokovic sprinted to a drop shot and lunged to get the ball back, coming up just short.
—Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
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