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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

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

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

"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

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 Sax Rohmer

Victor Munoz: Played with such a fearlessness and was an absolute nuisance for Man City, causing Nico O'Reilly all sorts of problems.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Dahlia Lithwick: In a country that historically did beheadings, hangings, all sorts of objectively gross executions, the decision was made somewhere along the line to medicalize executions, to make it look like dental surgery.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 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

There are all sorts of giant gadgets for the games, which might involve skill or stamina or being smart and involve a giant gumball machine or lickable wallpaper, per the book and movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

“In a second, Duke. Look. There’s something jiggly in the water. It’s like a flat rubber pull toy made out of clear gunk! It even has all sorts of strings to play with.”

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein