all-sorts
plural noun
a mixture, esp a mixture of liquorice sweets
all-sorts
Britishplural noun
all sorts
Idioms
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He found the bar-room crowded, but not with the usual Regatta Night throng of all-sorts.
From News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"Quite a bundle of all-sorts on the opposite counter there," I said to the woman, as I paid her for the candles.
From The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins
The Doctor, he fried up a dish of all-sorts in his happiest manner and took it around in a cheerful voice.
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Henry Wallace Phillips
Of course he had been sent to live at the "men's hut" amongst the all-sorts that at shearing season crowd that unsavoury abode.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge
Well, she was engaged to a man named Duncan: he was a widower with three or four children; he had the all-sorts shop down the village, only he moved last year.
From Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey
"You can sense it in town, when you speak to shopkeepers, hairdressers, bakers, all sorts," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Lifts of all sorts are, no pun intended, on the rise: forehead and brow lifts up 29 percent; arm lifts and neck lifts both up 21 percent.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
As Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. tell us in “Ghosts of Sicily,” soon everyday Sicilians were bringing all sorts of information to the Navy intelligence office in Lower Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“It opens the door for all sorts of conspiracy theories, and I can’t really shoot any of those down. That’s the problem,” Crandall said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Seven knew she was right; covens were made up of a mix of all sorts of witches, but she couldn’t imagine Mr. Pepperhorn being classified as virtuous.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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