How to Use sort in a Sentence

sort

1 of 2 noun

• She's not the sort to complain.
• He's not a bad sort.
• What sort of car do you drive?
• The program did a numeric sort of the data.
• That means a press tour of sorts.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 17 Feb. 2026
• But isn’t that a metaphor of sorts?
  — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 2 Jan. 2026
• Was this a fever dream of some sort?
  — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 7 June 2026
• The Horns have caught a fever of some sort.
  — Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026
• The night had been a reunion of sorts.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
• Think of it as a blanket of sorts.
  — Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal, 12 Feb. 2026
• Think of it as a blanket of sorts.
  — Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal, 14 Feb. 2026
• Both men served as a prologue of sorts.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
• Taking a breather of sorts helped.
  — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
• The smartest closet cleanout starts with a sort.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
• The play is a hit, of sorts, or so Duse thinks.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
• Could that include a one-off live event of some sort?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2026
• The Wolves look out of rhythm, out of gas, out of sorts.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2026
• All this prep is for a role of sorts, but not an acting one.
  — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 11 May 2026
• Michael Koman for a spinoff of sorts.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
• One is a cake drum or platter of some sort to keep the cake in place.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
• The moon is an anchor of sorts for us here on Earth.
  — Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2026
• Awaka also thought of it as a test of sorts.
  — Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
• Fine is still embracing his role as a heel of sorts.
  — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026
• These will act as a battery of sorts for the network.
  — Ishan Thakore, NPR, 20 May 2026
• The loose plot feels like a travelogue of sorts.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
• At the same time, you guys have become celebrities of a sort.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
• Decades ago, yes, of a wide variety of sorts.
  — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
• Rodgers' presence offers a cheat code of sorts.
  — CBS News, 20 May 2026
• Rae gave Maclin a pep talk of sorts before the match took place.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
• But the hurt wasn’t a physical sort.
  — Brian Martin, Oc Register, 8 Apr. 2026

sort

2 of 2 verb

• She started to sort the mail.
• They sorted the winners from the losers.
• The program can sort data alphabetically or numerically.
• Is there a law that sorts that out for us?
  — ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2026
• No letting the boys sort it out.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2026
• Why not trust the market to sort this out?
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
• Guides ran back and forth sorting packs.
  — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
• In the course of time, this will sort itself out.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2026
• Search, sort and browse the full list below.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2026
• All that will sort itself out in the months ahead.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
• Jones doesn't sort for prevalence.
  — Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• Once they're sorted, the berries are ready to wash.
  — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2026
• Or stay the course and trust the courts to sort it all out fairly?
  — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
• The Giants have four months to sort it all out.
  — Charlotte Carroll, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
• The legal system will have to sort all of that out.
  — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
• The White House is going to sort that out.
  — Justin Papp, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026
• It was designed to sort students.
  — Big Think, 4 Mar. 2026
• The rest of the East is sorting its affairs.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
• Luckily, there is Jenn there to sort her out.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
• People may just give up on trying to sort the real from the fake.
  — Nick Dothée, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2026
• Banks are also sorting out what this all means to balance sheets.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Will the president compel them to come back and sort this out?
  — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
• Human experts will need to sort signals from the noise.
  — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• And even as deputies tried to sort out who’d gone missing, a fight broke out among the inmates.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• With Paramount+, your list can only be sorted by the date added.
  — Jonathon Norcross, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
• The pecking order will sort it out, and the gentle birds will lose.
  — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026
• This might be cleaning out a set of drawers or sorting one or two types of toys.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 19 Apr. 2026
• That’s your spring and summer cocktail spots sorted, then.
  — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026
• The food-bank ladies sort the items people have given them, oil here, coffee there, etc.
  — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
• All of the scenarios will sort themselves out over the final two weeks.
  — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025