of the sort

idiom

: like the person or thing mentioned

"You said you didn't like him." "I said nothing of the sort."

I would like to go to a movie or a concert, or something of the sort.

Examples of of the sort in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Now, new laws are being enacted to rein in dangerous street drugs and curb their use in public — a revival of the sort of policy President Richard Nixon initiated in 1971 to disrupt the international drug trade. —Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024

Shortly thereafter, Ohio’s governor signed a bill into law blocking any municipality in the state from imposing anything of the sort. —Mya Frazier, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024

By leveraging large language models – of the sort that power tools like ChatGPT – GE Appliances are finding new ways to delight customers. —Bernard Marr, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

In many cases—such as those relating to price-fixing and other blatantly anticompetitive agreements, or tying requirements of the sort employed by Microsoft with its Internet Explorer browser—these laws are adequate for the task. —John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024

Now sovereign debt litigation of the sort experienced by Argentina is much less likely to occur because potential holdouts will be forced into the deal accepted by the others. —Gregory Makoff, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024

By any measure, Shane Smith and the Saints are in the midst of the sort of career-altering breakthrough that launches Texas bar bands into amphitheaters, music halls, and the top lines of festival posters. —Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024

There is plenty of the sort of officious nit-picking beloved of sports authorities. —Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024

Still, every record store worker who spoke with Rolling Stone has been widely embracing of the pop wave not just from sales but from a cultural standpoint, a rejection of the sort of elitism that can still be associated with vinyl culture snobbery. —Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024