sort - use in sentences

Object

  • message: Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] I have not compromised it.
  • wheat: There is commercialism, but we have to sort the wheat and the chaff.
  • everything: There was lots of bureaucracy and no central office to sort everything out.

Converse of object

  • like: For those who like this sort of thing, here are a few statistics.
  • do: Why do these sort of things always happen in slow motion?

Preposition: at

  • kerbside: Items put out for collection are sorted at the kerbside by recycling operatives.

Adjective modifier

  • same: Once the 10th class finished the test, I was able to do the same sort of lesson with them.
  • different: Being chosen by your pet does create a different sort of relationship which was new to us.
  • wrong: But it still worries me that the wrong sort of people go into politics and that we continue to elect them.
  • strange: Actually looking forward to it in a strange sadistic sort of a way.
  • usual: However, this is not the usual sort of inversion scenario ( red is not mapped to green, for example ).

Modifies a noun

  • code: Sort code ( UK only ) Code of emission Tools.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • out: Normally the problem can be sorted out on the spot.

Particle object: out_obj

  • mess: Peter is usually the only one who can sort out the mess.
  • problem: It would then be up to you to sort out the problem.

Present participle complement

  • accord: The list must be sorted according to the numbers of the indeterminates.

Preposition: of

  • thing: Why do these sort of things always happen in slow motion?
  • stuff: That's the sort of stuff we believe in.
  • person: Probably makes you the sort of person who is quite good at these games then.

Noun used with modifier

  • employability: There are links to two other employability card sorts from Biosciences and Windmills with this record.

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