The phrase "a kind of bat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific type or category of bat, whether in a biological, metaphorical, or figurative context.
Example: "The fruit bat is a kind of bat known for its large size and diet primarily consisting of fruits."
Alternatives: "a type of bat" or "a variety of bat".
Clinton wrote about playing a kind of bat-and-ball in Hot Springs, Arkansas, as a kid, and Plimpton wrote about igniting cherry bombs to shoot small rubber balls into the sky.
The hero worship of the fans, and the women who constituted a kind of endless batting practice in Mantle's life, are presented thoroughly and fairly.
Levine also managed to bring houndstooth to life in an animation sequence playing in the background of his runway presentation, where the pattern took flight as a kind of short-winged bat.
Dodgers outfielder Manny Ram z received a lesson in a different kind of batting from the Australian cricketer Shaun Marsh in Gilbert, Ariz., as part of a promotional appearance.
In fact I actually take it as a challenge wherever I go to try the most bizarre things on a menu, the kind of bat s**t crazy bartender flights of fancy that always seem to come with the prefix "acquired taste' or "heavily experimental".
But in Madagascar, where traveler's palm is native, the seeds are brilliant blue and particularly detectable to aye-ayes, a kind of rat-cat-bat-looking lemur with an enhanced capacity to detect ultraviolet light, according to Dr. Valenta.
The entrance and the back wall of the bat house should be covered in a kind of mesh that the bats can climb with their their claws.
"Subscribe to PewDiePie," which began as a grass-roots online attempt to keep the popular YouTube entertainer from being dethroned as the site's most-followed account, has morphed into a kind of all-purpose cultural bat signal for the young and internet-absorbed.
A practice run in Atlanta with the same device on the same kind of bat in a special CDC laboratory failed.
