of a sort

Idioms  

1. see of sorts.

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of a sort

Although ghosts of a sort do eventually appear, they are in human skins and human-scaled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

That makes us all time travelers of a sort, too, beacons of an increasingly distant era in which it was possible to be unplugged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

"We have hired private investigators and there have been sightings of him, but we have not been given any hard evidence of a sort of residence or location in a certain place," the liquidator says.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025

He’s referring to the miniseries he made after leaving “Doctor Who” – another time-traveling tale of a sort, only set on Earth and bound by gravity’s rules.

From Salon ● May 10, 2024

This idea hangs between us, almost visible, almost palpable: heavy, formless, dark; collusion of a sort, betrayal of a sort.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood