"sort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Materially the average incumbent approximated to the middling sort of tenant farmer; the unbeneficed, who lived on stipends, to smallholders, or even labourers.
- As for the pleasures of the world,-it is a very ordinary, middling sort of place.
- La Fontaine's conventional heroine was presented by Bogdanovich as "a living, modern girl from a gentry family of the middling sort".
- It's a middling sort of drink, with a bubble gum aroma and a pleasant enough, bland citrus flavor.
- By that time the living standards of the middling sort of English countrymen had improved significantly.
- After some brief discussion with Tharkay, Ertegun repeated himself in a middling sort of French, heavily accented: "Well?
- By the 17th century, in the light of the spectacular growth of London, many described urban artisans and merchants as "middling sorts," lying roughly between the landed classes and the rural peasantry.
- They were mainly of the 'middling sort' - wives and daughters of merchants, professionals, manufacturers and shopkeepers - drawn from Quaker, Unitarian and Evangelical families.
- It was a "middling sort of day", he said, featuring the 3,576th win of his extraordinary career on a bay gelding called Mauritino.
- A high percentage of the population were labourers/servants, and middling sorts, while a very low percentage of the population were employers or professionals.
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