The phrase "a kind of host" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that serves as a host in a general or metaphorical sense, often implying a specific type or category of host.
Example: "In the world of online gaming, a streamer can be seen as a kind of host, guiding viewers through the gameplay experience."
Alternatives: "a type of host" or "a sort of host".
In other words, each Errata book acts as a kind of host to its original title.
"Each candy is essentially a kind of host," Storr explains, "a surrogate for a body that's not there, because the weight of those candies represents the weight of Ross, who had already died of Aids, and of Felix himself, who was dying of Aids.
Thus, isolated induced hyperthermia in absence of infections or other physiological stimulators of the immune system seems to cause a kind of host response.
Some friends of her parents mentioned a curious job that seemed right for her — a kind of "shopping host" on a cruise ship.
A kind of official host patrolled the long line of travelers, searching for the tardy few who would miss their flights if not found and brought forward.
The performance is a kind of salon hosted by a personable cast (Sean Patten, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost and Simon Will), with a few onstage guests selected from the audience.
A new kind of host compound, 2,5-bis(diphenylmethyl)hydroquinone is designed and prepared.
Might Wordsworth, in fact, be thinking not only of the flowers themselves, but of a different kind of "host" - the French revolutionaries he admired in his youth, but who later shocked and disappointed him?
That moment, he said, when the virus is learning to propagate in a new kind of host, is when much of its genetic mutation happens – after that, its evolution is much slower.
Titled "Paris Autumn," it's a kind of cin? v t?host story; and it isn't a moving picture in the conventional sense but a rapid-fire succession of black-and-white still photographs arranged in a sequential narrative.
At one point, he played a kind of talk-show host role to moderate a discussion between Jack Ma of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and a young Philippine entrepreneur who was seeking more private-sector investment for his invention, a lightbulb powered by saltwater.
