Definition
some sort of (chicken dish): a kind of, a type of, an unknown (chicken dish)
He has some sort of cell phone that also acts as a hairbrush.
(I'm) sort of (hungry): (I am) a little, kind of (hungry)
- "It was like some sort of big homo convention."
- "I would like to see some sort of corporate weekend retreat for the employees."
- "You may think that this is some sort of joke, but this is no laughing matter."
- "Wait, eh, there's some sort of a mistake."
- "Philip : Come on Susie, what do you think I am, some sort of animal?"
- "Hannah : Alright, some sort of brass instrument – a trumpet?"
- "Some sort of clue... a tattoo, a birthmark, a mole, a bird, something!"
- "Listen, I really don't have time to speak to him right now, can't you just make up some sort of excuse to stop him from calling?"
- "I'm sorry, there seems to have been some sort of a mix-up here."
- "It looks like some sort of land surrounded on all sides by water."
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