SORT in a Sentence

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392 example sentences for SORT, such as:

1. It sort of frightens me.
2. Love is sort of encounter.
3. We both like the same sort of music.
4. That is his sort of bravery, he says.
5. The job's OK, but it's sort of limiting.

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 Meanings and Examples of SORT
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sort
 n.  kind or species; a class of;
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I only care for a picture when I think I see nature itself; and there are none of this sort.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXV
2  I know not," said Martin, "in what sort of scales your Pangloss would weigh the misfortunes of mankind and set a just estimate on their sorrows.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
3  Madame Magloire had once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
4  That is his sort of bravery, he says.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
5  He had there, it was said, a sort of field, a hole, a lair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
6  With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only another sort of benevolence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
7  It seemed to be a sort of rite with him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
8  The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by two doors.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
9  By the light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be built of sods.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
10  This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
11  It appeared that a Bohemian, a bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment in the town.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
12  There will be some sort of catastrophe in this town to-night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
13  All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which is almost indescribable.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
14  He very speedily perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is provided.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
15  There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
Example Sentence: (182 in 13 pages)
16  The central character of the novel is a sort of underworld figure.
17  Their specific task is to sort through the reams of information and try to determine what it may mean.
18  Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover ev-erybody's face their own.
19  Most patients undergo some sort of drug therapy for leukaemia.
20  The house was so untidy that she spent the whole day trying to establish some sort of order.
21  Roy is the expert so they gave him a free hand to sort out the problem.
22  It sort of frightens me.
23  Wade was a hearty, bluff, athletic sort of guy.
24  He's strikes me as a fairly together sort of a guy.
25  They were made to listen to white noise, such as static of the sort you might pick up between radio stations.
26  We both like the same sort of music.
27  Love is sort of encounter.
28  Violence of some sort seems to occur in every society.
29  The job's OK, but it's sort of limiting.
30  He wasn't a very prepossessing sort of person.