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			oblige oblige by oblige to do oblige with obliterate from obsessed with obtain for occasion occupy occupy oneself occupy with occur to ocean oceans of odd odd man out odds odds and ends odds are against one odds-on favorite odor odor of sanctity of a certain age of a mind to of a piece of a sort of age of all people of all places of all things Of all things! of benefit of course of interest of late of mature years of note of old of one mind of own accord of own making of service of sorts of the essence of the first water of the moment of the old school of the persuasion of the sort of two minds off			of of of of of (one's) word of (one's) word of (one's) word of (one's) word Of a certain of a certain age Of a certainty of a different kind of a kind of a kind of a like mind of a like mind of a mind to of a morning of a morning of a muchness of a muchness of a piece of a piece of a piece of a piece of a piece of a piece Of A Revolution Of A Revolution Setlist Archive of a single mind of a sort of a sudden of a sudden of a surety of a surety of a surety of a surety Of a truth of a twitter of a twitter of age of age of all people of all places of all sorts of all the cheek of all the cheek of all the nerve of all the nerve Of all the nerve! of all things Of all things! of all time of all time of an equal size of an evening of an evening of any description of any kind or sort Of Arrowe Hill Of Athens Plutarch

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