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after a sort
Idioms and Phrases
see after a fashion .Example Sentences
This summer, after a “sort of failed romance,” she decided to apply for Date Lab, which she has read on and off for years.
I think with the novel, I was very specifically trying to predict the future, and I even had in the back of my head that the novel takes place in a time after a sort of fascist-type figure takes over, and it sort of plays out that things haven't quite recovered yet, so things have gotten worse than they are now.
One writer went so far as to claim that African men were “furnisht with such members as are after a sort burthensome unto them”.
This came home to me in the next few days with even greater force, after a sort of book-slide occurred in my study, and Alan Clark's diaries once again more or less fell on to my desk.
The actual rabbit arrived early in the trick’s creation — “second week,” Mr. Jillette said — after a sort of audition.
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