of sorts

1. Also, of a sort. Of a kind, especially a mediocre or somewhat different kind. For example, He was wearing a jacket of sorts but no tie, or They established a constitutional government of a sort. [c. 1900]

Example Sentences

The guide told us that previous guests had reported toys packed in their luggage for their own children would be discovered misplaced and something seemed to have found a toy of sorts in our luggage as, on our first waking morning, the freshly charged battery on a certain something or other that we’d brought with us for the anniversary trip had gone dead in the night, and it wasn’t our doing, as much as I’d like to brag that it had been.

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Should he win next week’s election and become a standard-bearer of sorts for the Democrats, Republicans need to take care not to make the same mistake.

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Contrastingly, the experiment with Emma Lamb, picked on domestic form as an opener but asked to bat at number six, did not work as she managed 36 runs in five innings, while Sophia Dunkley also looked out of sorts with 68 in six knocks.

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McDermott said ServiceNow’s AI tools are resonating because they integrate well with the big cloud providers, large language models and data sources, functioning as a “control tower” of sorts for business initiatives.

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Though Tess and Katharine are rivals in the show, seasoned stage actor Kritzer become a mentor of sorts to Levesque, the pop star who entered the theater scene with a 2023 stint in Broadway’s “Moulin Rouge!” and is originating a role for the first time.

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