The phrase "a kind of lethal" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is lethal in a particular way, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "The poison was a kind of lethal substance that could kill within minutes."
Alternatives: "a type of lethal" or "a form of lethal".
Josh likened the route to a series of brainteasers, a kind of lethal sudoku.
When I was awake (the few hours that I was), I felt a kind of lethal fatigue, as if I were swimming through tar.
Caroline Faber's more fragile Goneril, in mental breakdown, plays a kind of lethal roulette with poisoned canapés, offering them to both her husband and her cheating lover before Regan snaffles one.
A chapter devoted to pig lagoons explains that the title subject is not a combination of "a swimming hole and BLTs" but rather a kind of lethal pig-waste repository covering up to 120,000 square feet and containing gases like ammonia and hydrogen-sulfide.
He was suspicious of the government and sympathetic to the counterculture, especially to those who used drugs to pierce the veil -- although he would ultimately chronicle, in "A Scanner Darkly," the ways in which addictive substances themselves became a kind of lethal totalitarian force.
Every year, two youngsters from each district are selected by lot and sent to take part in the "Hunger Games" -- a kind of lethal version of our own beloved reality show Survivor.
Thus the huge resistance in the Pentagon to giving any kind of lethal weaponry to the rebels, at least until someone can figure out who they are and teach them how to shoot straight.
Both were sickened by exposure to Novichok, a kind of highly lethal nerve agent uniquely developed by Russian military scientists years ago.
Pancreatic cancer is a kind of highly lethal gastrointestinal cancer.
It is, however, a realistic possibility that an agent might extend lifespan by an effect on a specific kind of lethal illness, such as the neoplastic diseases that are the usual cause of death in laboratory mouse stocks.
Dr. Mansky, for example, has been inspired by studies in the last few years that revealed how our own bodies use a natural kind of lethal mutagenesis.
