How to use "sort" in a sentence

Valjean slowly raised his head and stared with a sort of amazement at the child

It's not nice, that sort of thing

I suppose you've got some sort of career, now? Perhaps you've made a fortune

"No! I can't, I don't have that sort of money

"What sort of person wants to have a holiday in this remote, ugly part of the world?"

"The sort of person like my monster of a wife."

Didn't they have some sort of fight recently, Miss White?"

I suppose you didn't notice, but those two are having some sort of romantic affair."

This sort of life is new to me

We expected a very modern sort of girl.' Beatrice laughed and I laughed with her.

It was not the sort of love he needed

'What sort of news, Captain Searle?' I asked him.

Then he said, 'What do you mean? What sort of holes?'

She had taken several steps up in her career during the past year, and she had relied on hard work as a sort of morphine, using it to dull her pain until the wound fully healed.

She wasn't the sort of person who would snap over a thing like this

What possible excuse could he have? What twisted logic could justify this sort of sick behavior? It was crazy, hateful.

I can't think of anyone I know who'd be capable of this sort of thing even if they did hate me enough to contemplate it

He's one sort of sickie or another

"Karate, cyanide capsules, that sort of stuff?" she asked.

Document analysis, tedious interpretation of satellite reconnaissance photographs, that sort of thing

Some of our clients made smart moves and were carried right to the top by the explosive growth of the gaming industry and the Vegas real-estate market, and we just sort of shot up there along with them, hanging on to their coattails."

With all these attorneys, it's sort of a busman's holiday, don't you think?"

"What sort of questions?" Elliot asked.

"What sort of questions do you want to ask me?"

That was a bizarre thought, not at all the sort of notion he'd ordinarily get in his head, and he didn't like it.

sort of looming."

Yeah, I do remember some little things he did that were sort of odd."

deep down, I got a sick sort of thrill when I killed that man."

Basically maps that show the lay of the land - hills, valleys, the courses of rivers and streams, footpaths, abandoned logging trails, that sort of thing

Always sounded like the worst sort of bunkum to me."

You're probably wondering if I'm some sort of lunatic

There must be some sort of road into the place, even if it's well concealed

You can do that sort of thing as long as they know for sure you're capable of paying the entire bill when it comes due a month later."

"Some sort of logging trail?"

"He's never seen us or the Explorer, and this isn't the sort of place where there's a lot of new or unexpected traffic."

She began to wonder exactly what sort of little boy they were going to find at the top of the mountain.

But if we closed up shop, if we stopped doing this sort of research just because we were afraid of men like Tamaguchi winding up in charge of it, we'd be conceding so much ground to our enemies that we wouldn't survive for long

What sort of research do you think they might do then?"

'What sort of research work?'

Its head is white instead of black, and it has a strange sort of leg.'

Andre had not been the absent-minded sort of professor

But I am the sort of woman you most dislike, and yet you adore me, don't you?'

'This isn't the usual sort of love affair between Anne and me.'

Strange sort of noise it was.'

'Then there was that shot I heard,' said Miss Marple, 'Yes, the sound was different from the usual sort of shot.'

And, of course, he is not the sort of young man who would marry a woman who has no money

'It was the wrong sort of stone for my garden! And that made me think.'

There were raised voices, and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on around the pit

I knew my cousin was brave enough for any emergency, but he was not the sort of man to understand danger quickly and do something about it

Then, through a sort of glass plate, I saw the large, dark eyes of a Martian, and one of its tentacles appeared, moving in through the hole.

All these - the sort of people that lived in these houses, all those little office workers that used to live down that way - they'd be no good

We thought they were some sort of Red Indian food, and, to cook them correctly, it was necessary to do special dances with magic words.