of the sort

idiom

: like the person or thing mentioned

"You said you didn't like him." "I said nothing of the sort."

I would like to go to a movie or a concert, or something of the sort.

Examples of of the sort in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Realtek chip inside will not be running Plex, a torrent downloader, or anything of the sort (nor does the OS support that). —

Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 29 July 2024 Harris, like Biden, has emphasized the need to reduce Western economic reliance on China without strangling trade between the two nations or potentially hurting the U.S. economy through steep tariffs of the sort Trump espouses. —

Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024 A little support of the sort that a patient teacher might show toward a struggling pupil may also influence chatbot performance. —

Webb Wright, Scientific American, 25 July 2024 The Trofeo trades the powerful little hybrid powertrain for a monster of the sort that made Italian performance famous: a 523-hp twin-turbo 3.0L V6 that can disable three cylinders for fuel economy and has two spark plugs and two fuel injectors per cylinder. —

Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 17 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for of the sort

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