How to Use of the sort in a Sentence

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  • Her shots betrayed none of the sort of tension that Jabeur’s shots did.
    — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • What are some of the sort of peak experiences along the way over this past year?
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2022
  • This isn't to say Portis should be given 20+ shots per game, or anything of the sort.
    — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • There’s no central touchscreen of the sort most modern cars have.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Since then, however, Ivey hasn’t done anything of the sort.
    — Kyle Whitmire | , al, 25 Apr. 2023
  • With a laugh, Thomas admitted nothing of the sort has happened to him.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Pence seems to have less appetite for fights of the sort that Trump or DeSantis are promising to wage.
    — T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Yet the bond vigilante crowd doesn’t tend to believe in miracles of the sort to which Taleb refers.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But some coffee stores are trialing a system of the sort.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023
  • Experts have noted that SpaceX had nothing of the sort present at their Starship launch.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
  • The errand that nearly cost Ralph Yarl his life was of the sort that falls to older brothers everywhere.
    — Christine Hauser, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The errand that nearly cost Ralph Yarl his life was of the sort that falls to older brothers everywhere.
    — Christine Hauser, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Some pieces of the costumes are exhibited by themselves, as is a replica of the sort of iron collar forced around the necks of enslaved Africans.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • New election laws ensure that nothing of the sort will ever happen.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • Is this a trick question of the sort that Hessler depicts his children completing in third-grade math class, the kind designed to trip students up?
    — The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • No president before Trump has ever claimed anything of the sort.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Building a true intelligence of the sort that lives inside a robot is a grand challenge.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
  • Building a true intelligence of the sort that lives inside a robot is a grand challenge.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
  • And that was based, Mr. Miller, on Matt and the data team’s assessment of the sort of county-by-county, state-by-state results as reported?
    — Aaron Blake, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2022
  • This is a straw man argument of the sort Williams delights in, in his Sun platform on the editorial pages.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
  • The only acknowledgment of the sort is when the Höss children are swimming in a river and Höss sees ashes and bits of remains floating in the water.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2024
  • China doesn’t have the same privacy restrictions and laws that in the West stop some harvesting of the sort of data that are used by AI, critics say.
    — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Sitting at the center of Expats is a mystery of the sort that’s fueled countless crime dramas, and countless more true-crime series.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
  • There is plenty of the sort of officious nit-picking beloved of sports authorities.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Because there is also a lot of football in the four episodes—spectacular highlights of the sort to delight even a person who doesn’t like football.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The challenges ahead for Palestinians require strong leadership of the sort that Abbas has not offered and cannot provide.
    — Khaled Elgindy, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2023
  • It may simply be sponsored research of the sort UW-Madison often does with companies.
    — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • His response has been to double down on his opposition to a two-state solution of the sort envisioned by the 1993 Oslo Accords.
    — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The problem isn’t mass panic of the sort featured in Hollywood movies—research has shown that such panic at moments of disaster is a myth.
    — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Shortly thereafter, Ohio’s governor signed a bill into law blocking any municipality in the state from imposing anything of the sort.
    — Mya Frazier, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024

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