The phrase "a sort of apprentice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is learning a trade or skill under the guidance of a more experienced person, often in a less formal or traditional apprenticeship context.
Example: "During my summer internship, I felt like a sort of apprentice, learning the ropes from my mentor."
Alternatives: "kind of trainee" or "somewhat of a novice".
Giorgio de Chirico was most likely studio-bound the summer he finished "Great Metaphysical Interior" (1917), a dark, suffocated picture consisting mostly of a setup of easels coming to life in a sort of "Sorcerer's Apprentice" fantasy.
Down to Westminster, another surprisingly well-dressed lady in her mid-40s – honestly, she looks like she could've been one of Lord Sugar's assistant on The Apprentice, a sort of substitute Karen Brady – waves a home made sign and calls us all "traitors"; a man in the high tower of a tall ship gives us a distant thumbs down.
So, with all that in mind, you're basically left to surmise that Trump is either going to use the convention to announce that he is trading down to a younger spouse or that he's going to do some sort of "Apprentice" spoof.
But the choosing of who will work in his administration has taken on a sort of "Bachelor," "American Idol" or, yes, "Apprentice" kind of vibe.
NBC was pondering adding extra scenes and features to its Saturday night repeats of "The Apprentice," making it into a sort of director's cut.
If you're an aspiring writer, having a really talented agent, being mentored by a previous agent is so important or if you're a young producer, having an older producer who's sort of apprenticing you is such a critical part of creative fields.
And, in a sort of unsurprising piece of Trumpian cross-promotion, the winning team on the episode of "The Apprentice" that featured Mr. Cooper won a round of golf in Bedminster.
Apprentices live a spartan existence, training, sleeping and eating twice daily a fattening broth in a sort of monastic collective that has few parallels in professional sport.
