Word Finder - sort

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A general type.

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Manner; form of being or acting.

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Condition above the vulgar; rank.

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A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).

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Group, company.

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A good-looking woman.

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An act of sorting.

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I had a sort of my cupboard.

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An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

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Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.

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A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.

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A type.

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Chance; lot; destiny.

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A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.

I wouldn't worry too much about that sort of thing.

He spoke of having some sort of flashback.

They said it might be some sort of rare blood disorder.

It worked, sort of.

He kicked himself mentally for not thinking before he made any sort of pact with the Watcher, even one that seemed so straightforward, until he met his target and realized she was an innocent caught in the crossfire.

It involved some sort of messages from space.

A few said that there was one man in their neighborhood who seemed to have had some sort of good luck.

Sort of, she added.

It's sort of a mystery, isn't it?

It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves.

She tightened her grip around him, and he was amused to think of himself as any sort of comfort to anyone, let alone a little human like her.

I sort of got roped into this mess by default.

With his small frame and bright eyes, he'd always reminded her of an elf of some sort.

But we will work with them to come to some sort of terms.

Your bracelet acts as a sort of master key, so you can go anywhere in the whole house.

I'm not going to anything of the sort, and if you think you'll make me … She stopped, unable to help the tears welling in her eyes.

She awaited some sort of reprimand, already wounded by the thought of being publicly embarrassed.

She was expecting some sort of alien monster to inhabit the brutal planet.

The warriors before her looked as if they'd just been released from some sort of meeting.

You and Mrs. Dean are sort of like pals of mine, you know?

This sort of confirms what we suspected, don't it?

But, in truth, I think it's sort of exhilarating!

It's sort of like playing let's pretend.

It does sort of seem that way.

You know you're doing wrong, but you sort of admit to your own imperfections.

That sort of narrows it down, doesn't it?

They're sort of moving in on this, he answered.

He hadn't spoken to Edith Shipton since her husband's accident and felt, as the host of Bird Song, he owed the woman some sort of condolence.

Weller asked "What do I have, some sort of tracking device stuck in my shorts?"

It was sort of lying around when I was dusting her room.

Donald talked about some sort of joint custody when he brought him up to meet me.

Yeah, well...that's the truth, sort of.

I am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant for us.

Sonya said you wouldn't go, but I knew that today is the sort of day when you couldn't help going.

You know that sort of tradesman's son, a dandy and lady-killer.

A system of some sort was killing him--Pierre--depriving him of life, of everything, annihilating him.

At times a sort of mist descended, and then suddenly heavy slanting rain came down.

As if I don't know what sort you want!

Not only did his contemporaries, carried away by their passions, talk in this way, but posterity and history have acclaimed Napoleon as grand, while Kutuzov is described by foreigners as a crafty, dissolute, weak old courtier, and by Russians as something indefinite--a sort of puppet useful only because he had a Russian name.

Well, he's a poor sort of soldier...

This evening he listened to Pierre in a sort of trance, and fancy--as we were going in to supper I looked and he had broken everything on my table to bits, and he told me of it himself at once!

This is a sort of hash or sloppy joe, featuring shredded beef with tomato, green olives, green pepper, tomato, and garlic, served with rice and black beans.

The chef is glad to adjust the level of spice of each dish to the taste of the guest, and suggests that those who are unfamiliar with this sort of cuisine start mild and work their way up to spicy.

I'm not bringing an Original Vamp here without some sort of backup.

She shook her head, not about to believe anything of the sort happened outside her nightmare.

Though the demon lord didn't move from his spot, she was afraid of causing any sort of confrontation between them.

She waited for some sort of reaction.

Caleb and me sort of got in trouble just before he left.

There weren't enough matches and we were sort of in a hurry.

I knew he had a spotted life before meeting my mother, but I figured he was secretive about his past simply because it gave him a sort of mystique.