The phrase "a sort of barrier" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that functions as a barrier in a vague or non-specific way.
Example: "The new policy created a sort of barrier between the departments, making communication more difficult."
Alternatives: "a kind of obstacle" or "a type of hindrance".
"It lasts forever and can provide a sort of barrier".
The high-low dynamic between the price and the utilitarian sensibility of the food at Sette Mezzo creates a sort of barrier to lumpenproletariat diners.
But even if Knausgaard is serving his self‑revelation in a sauce of kink, it takes on more than therapeutic importance when one considers the way shame functions as a sort of barrier to authenticity.
But even if Knausgaard is serving his self‑revelation in a sauce of kink, it takes on more than therapeutic importance when one considers the way shame functions as a sort of barrier to authenticity.
The first planet you land on, Eos, is covered in radiation, which is used as a sort of barrier to tell you that you can't go any further out into the world at this time.
"Another advantage of these devices is that on simple presentations and meetings they are less in your face, and less intimidating than a laptop, which becomes a sort of barrier in meetings," Hamann adds.
From our perch in our two-bedroom house up a steep driveway — with doors that did not lock and a terrace that lacked any sort of barrier — we could see that the little village fell dark and quiet before midnight.
However, any sort of barrier between your face and the RCA is better than nothing.
"There is a sort of language barrier, around 8,000 years ago," explains Professor Robert Foley, professor of human evolution at the University of Cambridge.
On the data-transmission front, thick metal walls can create a sort of electromagnetic barrier, which enables the device to function as something known as a Faraday cage.
Some of the more fascinating items include the oldest dated miter from 1681, another that lacks a date but is believed to be about a century older, and a pair of liturgical slippers intricately adorned on the soles with images of a scorpion and a snake, a sort of final barrier between the priest and evil temptations.
