sort of phr.
to an extent, in a way.
![]() | Legends of the West 50: It sort o’ stirs one up, to hear about old times. | |
![]() | Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 126: His head was sorter throwd back; he was breathin’ sorter hard. | |
![]() | Virginians I 190: ‘You were hurt by the betting just now?’ ‘Well,’ replied the lad, ‘I am sort o’ hurt.’. | |
![]() | Bill Arp 130: There was a feller with me when I was cotch’d, and I seen him make a sorter of a sign to the captain. | |
![]() | Poems 62: For a blow of his pick / Sorter caved in the side. | ‘Dow’s Flat’|
![]() | Sportsman (Melbourne) 8 Feb. 2/5: The worthy official gazed [...] in a ‘sorter’ helpless way. | |
![]() | ‘Going Blind’ in Roderick (1972) 176: He had a boy down with him — a ‘sorter cousin of his’. | |
![]() | Five Notions 66: Hurry up them Quakers now; let the stuff be quality; / The tin a sorter keepsake for hisself and kids to prize. | ‘Chocolate’|
![]() | By Bolo and Krag 22: I sort of reckon that the eye-opener I bought in the bar downstairs did the trick. | |
![]() | Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 87: He had to admit that Cousin Bernice was sorta dopeless. | ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ in|
![]() | Jack-Roller 130: The landlady had two daughters, and I sort of shined up to them. | |
![]() | Dames Don’t Care (1960) 106: Paulette looks my way an’ sorta gives me the once over. | |
![]() | Buckaroo’s Code (1948) 48: And perhaps you sort of like June Flagg? | |
![]() | Corner Boy 89: The bims sorta happened to put on pressure. | |
![]() | Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 35: He might take up running in a sort of professional way when he gets out. | ‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ in|
![]() | 77 Dream Songs 27: My friends,—he has been known to mourn,—I’ll die; / live you, in the most wild, kindly, green / partly forgiving wood, / sort of forever. | |
![]() | Serial 30: John-John sort of blew it by [...] dumping the scalding French roast methodically down his pant leg. | |
![]() | Curvy Lovebox 5: I [...] sor’a wedge in between her an’ her friend. | |
![]() | Sopranos 319: That we hadn’t been drinking, sort of. | |
![]() | Beyond Black 200: He wouldn’t, sort of, undo his clothes and take out private bits of himself in public? |