all-sorts
a mixture, esp a mixture of liquorice sweets
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How to use all-sorts in a sentence
"Quite a bundle of all-sorts on the opposite counter there," I said to the woman, as I paid her for the candles.
The Queen of Hearts | Wilkie CollinsI can prepare for and put up with a regularly bad day, but these ha'porth-of-all-sorts kind of days do not suit me.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow | Jerome K. JeromeWe've got six or eight all-sorts, some awake and some asleep, but I suppose we shall have to let 'em go again.
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu | Sax RohmerHe found the bar-room crowded, but not with the usual Regatta Night throng of all-sorts.
News from the Duchy | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-CouchOf course he had been sent to live at the "men's hut" amongst the all-sorts that at shearing season crowd that unsavoury abode.
Thirty Years in Australia | Ada Cambridge
Other Idioms and Phrases with all-sorts
see all kinds.
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