SORT in a Sentence
Learn SORT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
392 example sentences for SORT, such as:
1. That is his sort of bravery, he says.
2. She is a very domestic sort of woman.
3. This sort of camera is very expensive.
4. The sort of animal lived in the Arctic Circle.
5. He had grown unused to this sort of attention.
2. She is a very domestic sort of woman.
3. This sort of camera is very expensive.
4. The sort of animal lived in the Arctic Circle.
5. He had grown unused to this sort of attention.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SORT
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sort
v. examine in order to test suitability
v. arrange or order by classes or categories
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
14 He very speedily perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is provided.
15 There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain.
Example Sentence: (182 in 13 pages)
1 Let early education be a sort of a musement; you will then be bette able to find out the natural bent.
2 He's the sort of person who only cares about money.
3 The sort of animal lived in the Arctic Circle.
4 Most people went on training courses of one sort or another last year.
5 I can't give you anything more than just sort of a ballpark figure.
6 He had grown unused to this sort of attention.
7 These hotels still offer the sort of service which were the hallmark of the grand days of travel.
8 Most people are willing to condemn violence of any sort as evil.
9 What she needed was a weapon of some sort, something that would keep him at a distance should the need arise.
10 She is a very domestic sort of woman.
11 The male bird performs a sort of mating dance before copulating with the female.
12 I was born with black hair all over my back, like some sort of freak.
13 We need to call in an electrician to sort out the wiring.
14 This sort of camera is very expensive.
15 He's the sort of man who would let down the tyres on your car just out of/from spite.