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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

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

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

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

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

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

They run on virtual machines in data centers but raise all sorts of privacy concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

He ran in the direction of a great aviary filled with all sorts of birds, and Orion ran after him.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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