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• all-sorts
  all-sorts

  plural noun

  a mixture, esp a mixture of liquorice sweets
• all sorts
  all sorts

  see all kinds.

all-sorts

British  

plural noun

1. a mixture, esp a mixture of liquorice sweets

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all sorts Idioms  

1. see all kinds.

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Example Sentences

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all-sorts all sorts

"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

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

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

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

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

Los Angeles went 20 years without an NFL franchise, during which all sorts of stadium ideas were proposed and eventually died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

“I’ve lived failed policies of all sorts of administrations,” she said.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

"You meet all sorts of people from all walks of life... you're sure of companionship."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

I’m sure you get all sorts of customers in your store — the good, the bad and the impossible.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The CDO manager, in practice, didn’t do much of anything, which is why all sorts of unlikely people suddenly hoped to become one.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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