How to Use of one kind/sort/type or another in a Sentence

of one kind/sort/type or another

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  • But stains of one kind or another are all over Ruscha’s work.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Each week, more than 1,000 people come through their doors to seek help of one kind or another.
    Dallas News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Bureaucrats of one sort or another have taken the place of princes and counts.
    David Pryce-Jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • While most of the characters are grad students of one kind or another, not all are.
    Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • Humans have been a presence of one kind or another in the region ever since.
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Some who made the journey were idealists of one sort or another.
    Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • So, yes, obviously, there is a weapon of one kind or another.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • All politicians are performers of one sort or another, the lucky ones by dint of natural gifts.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • All writers are chameleons of one sort or another, blending into the background to better observe the world and people around them.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But the reality is these are all drones of one kind or another, with different forms of propulsion.
    NBC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Almost every season, the state of refereeing seems to be in a crisis of one kind or another, as game-swinging calls are missed or botched.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Still, even the best modern big-budget video game narratives tend to focus on power fantasies of one type or another.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Nearly all the candidates are promising to cut taxes of one sort or another to cushion the blow of a spiraling cost-of-living crisis.
    New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • Narcotics deaths almost all involve opioids of one type or another.
    Casey B. Mulligan, National Review, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Arkansas Methodists have been holding sunrise services of one kind or another for more than 100 years, in communities large and small.
    Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 11 Mar. 2023
  • To some extent, grocery shortages of one kind or another have been an increasingly commonplace occurrence in parts of the US in the aftermath of the pandemic.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 13 May 2022
  • The trans-Atlantic liberal order Locke helped to bring about finds itself under assault from all sides by people determined to replace it with tyranny of one kind or another.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Disappearances, of one kind or another, have become the backbeat of Chinese public life under Xi Jinping.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • World leaders facing court cases, charges, hearings Still, Johnson isn't the only world leader, former or current, who has been in the hot seat in the form of being the subject of a court case, hearing or legal inquiry of one kind or another.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • Experiencing trauma of one type or another is not rare.
    Markalain Déry, STAT, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Many of its members — designers, hair and makeup artists, stylists, photographers — grew up as outcasts of one kind or another, shunned in their hometowns for being too gay, too outré, too strange, too other.
    Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The rising cost of financing may have pushed up the expense of development, but rising interest rates have also driven families that might have bought in the past into rental units of one kind or another.
    Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Many attract pollinators of one kind or another; some are edible or medicinal; and a few even produce winter seed for songbirds.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Many content creators seemed unfazed by data privacy concerns, noting that every social media platform comes with risks of one kind or another.
    Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • There is violence of one kind or another in almost every story in this collection, but in passing so much of it through the prism of impossibility, Kochai condemns both those who perpetrated that violence and those who looked the other way.
    Omar El Akkad, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • When these brief, powerful blips were first seen in data from radio telescopes, many skeptics suspected they would be traced to mundane, terrestrial electromagnetic interference of one kind or another.
    Leonard David, Scientific American, 9 June 2023
  • Many voters who were themselves idealists of one kind or another—including, most notably, pro-life Christians—supported his candidacy in explicitly pragmatic terms.
    Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022

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