sort of way

collocation in English

meaningsofsortandway

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sort
noun
uk
/sɔːt/us
/sɔːrt/
a group of things that are of the same type or that share ...
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way
noun
uk
/weɪ/us
/weɪ/
a route, direction, ...
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(Definition ofsortandwayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsort of way

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Nonetheless, it is interesting - in a generalsortofway.
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I will argue that determinism, operating in the rightsortofway, is required for responsibility.
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You must never suggest in anysortofwaythat there are any individuals in cricket.
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Fascinating in a dreadfulsortofway, ultimately it is very depressing.
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The town was active, though not pioneering in a municipalsortofway.
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To diminish a person's actual or prospective quality of life in thissortofwayis to harm that person.
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So if virtual creatures are not fine-tuned in thissortofway, they cannot be counted as living things.
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The dependent variable does address itself to the principles and values of democracy, but only indirectly and in an obliquesortofway.
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It is exciting, in a quietsortofway, to see and to read the results of a half-decade or more of new research.
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In order for truth to be received in the rightsortofwaycertain conditions must be present in the subject.
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Freedom, in this (indeterministic) sense, and determinism, in the wrongsortofway, are both the enemy of freedom and responsibility.
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We do it in a quietsortofway.
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Presumably, we shall go on in thatsortofway.
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Whatsortofwayis that to begin a marriage?
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It can be wangled in everysortofway.
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We instinctively react in the samesortofway.
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Whatsortofwayis that to treat people?
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Businessmen do not really behave in thatsortofway.
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In thatsortofwayone can get the cooks.
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He laughed, but in a funnysortofway.
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There is everysortofwayof getting round it.
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The world cannot organise in thatsortofway.
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Whatsortofwayis this to draw up regulations?
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They cannot occupy themselves in anysortofway.
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They could do it in thatsortofwaynow.
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