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

We've got six or eight all-sorts, some awake and some asleep, but I suppose we shall have to let 'em go again.

From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax

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 Phillips, Henry Wallace

He found the bar-room crowded, but not with the usual Regatta Night throng of all-sorts.

From News from the Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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 Carey, Rosa Nouchette

"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 Collins, Wilkie