145 collocations for sort

Skim says my pome's no good; but I sort o' like it, myself.

Nor indeed can we rank and sort things, and consequently (which is the end of sorting) denominate them, by their real essences; because we know them not.

Color form sorting test record form, by Kurt Goldstein & Martin Scheerer.

Her father being too unwell to leave his bed that day, Katherine received the mail as his deputy, and, giving the Indian a receipt for it, proceeded to open the bag and sort the letters it contained.

[Illustration] The following day, Graham's mother was sorting the boy's dirty clothes for the wash when she noticed an ink stain on his shirt pocket.

Ned sat at his desk sorting some papers.

She had found this book while sorting out the multitudinous contents of her mother's wardrobe, and at the last moment, perceiving that it had been overlooked, and being somehow ashamed to leave it to the auctioneers, she had brought it away, not knowing how she would ultimately dispose of it.

She began by noting down commonplace things, as though by way of sorting out her impressions.

(Elle sort par la droite.)

The last one I can call to mind was Bill Chambers being nailed up in a pig-sty he was cleaning out, but there was such a fuss made over that by Billthat it sort o' disheartened people.

My Letter shall single out those who take delight in sorting a Company that has something of Burlesque and Ridicule in its Appearance.

But they have shovels with which to push the gold towards you, and in a small glass stand is a sponge kept constantly damp, across which the cashier draws his finger as he counts the silver, the slight moisture enabling him to sort the coin more swiftly.

It is necessary to sort the materials somewhat before saying more about them.

" He drew out a little tight roll of bills and sorted out three five-dollar notes gravely.

That is to say, we always find, after sorting any large number of such objects in the order (let us suppose) of their lengths, beginning with the shortest and ending with the tallest, and setting them side by side like a long row of park palings between the same limits, their upper outline will be identical.

That ESSENCE, in the ordinary use of the word, relates to sorts, and that it is considered in particular beings no further than as they are ranked into sorts, appears from hence: that, take but away the abstract ideas by which we sort individuals, and rank them under common names, and then the thought of anything essential to any of them instantly vanishes: we have no notion of the one without the other, which plainly shows their relation.

Professor De Graf was sorting the mail at the breakfast table.

" "Well, that ought to square with your socialistic notions," chaffed MacPherson, sorting the work on his desk and pushing a certain portion of it toward Stoddard.

He stood quite still beside his sister, sorting out sounds, analyzing smells.

A little girl had been watching him from her place at one of the factory windows where she was sorting cans.

By affablyalways affably and hospitablyaccepting this service from one society, and suggesting another pressing need to its competitor, it sorted out capabilities, and warded off duplication.

The chaussée is lined with trees on each side the whole way from Rivoli to Turin; I observed among carriages of all sorts small cars, like those used by children, drawn by dogs.

Some of them babble like babies, others are evidently austere scholars; some are gravely bent on the best methods of classifying catalogues, economizing space, and sorting borrowers' cards; others, scorning such mechanical details, bid us regard libraries, and consequently librarians, as the primary factors in human evolution.

We took up our dispositions, and shortly all officers were engaged sorting out the suspicious characters arrested by the sentries.

For hour after hour I worked on, sorting out my various chemicals, and preparing such methods of treatment as were necessary in each case.

145 collocations for  sort