But is it conceivable that this is all he has meant?
Hood had an abundance of a certain sort of wit, the wit of odd analogies, of remote yet familiar resemblances, of quaint conceits and humourous and unexpected quirks.
At eight he was master of his schoolmaster--a gentleman given to flogging but not learned in Greek, and therefore a proper subject for a certain sort of blackmailing.
Last season, however, the pent-up exasperation of years found a certain sort of relief, for a new colony was started in a Moreton Bay ash-tree not a hundred yards away and in full view from my veranda.
If totemism be taken in the simpler sense, as a certain sort of intimate relation between men and nonhuman things, it will be found to be widely distributed in the noncivilized world.
House is Form; disorder of a certain sort is Privation; bricks are Matter; the building art is Movent.
In some cases learning such words and facts only to use them in solving a certain sort of problems and then forget them may be profitable.
I only know that I am angry all through when I hear a certain sort of man saying, and apparently proving, that the Golden Rule does not work.
It seemed odd that in a house where there was always plenty to eat and to wear, of a certain sort, stationery and stamps should be practically unknown.
I have freedom, of a certain sort, and you've never had a chance to learn the meaning of the word.
She was sent to school regularly, and had plenty to eat and wear, of a certain sort.
And that is the heart-breaking thing connected with crime of a certain sort.
An artist in crime is, in his way, well worthy of a certain sort of admiration.
The prints at the rose arbor were made by a certain sort of shoe--a kind which I felt sure Miss Cavanaugh never wore.
We observe a man who could do a great thing of a certain sort if only that sort of thing were demanded to be done at the time and in the place in which he loiters wasted.
We behold conditions of place and time entirely fitted for a certain sort of happening; but nothing happens, because the necessary people are away.
He was a philanthropist of a certain sort; and would willingly have put a considerable portion of his fellow-creatures to death, in order to serve, and elevate, and improve the rest.
Weak things clung to it, as ivy to an oak or a strong wall: and its power over them was increased by a certain sort of tenderness--a protecting pity, which mingled strangely with his harder and ruder qualities.
Her eyes were not fixed and motionless, though there was a certain sort of deadness in them.
Upon second thoughts, the nurse judged it strange too; and a certain sort of cold dread came upon her as she remembered her long absence, and combined it with the perfect stillness.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain sort" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
