of a sort

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of a sort

having some but not all of the characteristics of something. Officials portrayed the meetings as progress of a sort, although the bargaining has not yet begun.

Usage notes: used after a noun being described, as in the example

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After groping through a grey forest of overcoats, he found that the dim cloak room opened on the lighted corridor in the form of a sort of counter or half-door, like most of the counters across which we have all handed umbrellas and received tickets. The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context She was the motherless child of a sort of cousin of my father's. David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context It is not possible to blink the truth that Emma Jane was dull; but a dogged, unswerving loyalty, and the gift of devoted, unselfish loving, these, after all, are talents of a sort, and may possibly be of as much value in the world as a sense of numbers or a faculty for languages. Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context More results

References in classic literature

After groping through a grey forest of overcoats, he found that the dim cloak room opened on the lighted corridor in the form of a sort of counter or half-door, like most of the counters across which we have all handed umbrellas and received tickets.

The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context

She was the motherless child of a sort of cousin of my father's.

David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context

It is not possible to blink the truth that Emma Jane was dull; but a dogged, unswerving loyalty, and the gift of devoted, unselfish loving, these, after all, are talents of a sort, and may possibly be of as much value in the world as a sense of numbers or a faculty for languages.

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context

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