The phrase "a sort of catch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is somewhat of a trap or a tricky situation, often with a nuance of being unexpected or not entirely straightforward.
Example: "The job offer seemed perfect, but there was a sort of catch that made me reconsider."
Alternatives: "a kind of snag" or "a type of drawback".
"There is a Japanese saying that comes from the art of dollmaking, a sort of catch phrase, that the face is the life of the doll," said Hironobu Sakaguchi, a celebrated Japanese video-game creator who is making his feature-film directing debut with this movie.
In the half decade since the release of the first Surface, the line has become a sort of catch all for Microsoft's own PC hardware, and additions like the Laptop and the iMac competitor Surface Studio have put the squeeze on the Pro.
Its hesitance has put it in a sort of Catch-22.
He felt, he says, "that it was a sort of catch-22 thing.
Right now, the chief obstacle to space travel is a sort of Catch-22 of extra-terrestrial accounting.
Before George Chauncey published "Gay New York: Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940," in 1995, gay-show-business folklore was a sort of catch-as-catch-can affair.
This left me alone to solve the coffee problem — a sort of Catch-22, as in order to think straight I needed caffeine, and in order to make that happen I needed to think straight.
By Hilton Als August 8, 2013 Before George Chauncey published "Gay New York: Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940," in 1995, gay-show-business folklore was a sort of catch-as-catch-can affair.
Biking, it seems, is an uphill ride, due largely to mathematics and a sort of Catch-22: with only a small percentage of Americans using bicycles as their primary method of transportation, there's no huge public outcry for — or immediate political benefit to — remaking city streets so that they're a little less friendly to cars and a lot more hospitable to bikes.
But even if he wanted to impose a surcharge, Mr. Charles is one of many merchants who would not be able to, because of a sort of Catch-22 provision in the settlement that makes it effectively impossible for establishments that accept American Express to take advantage of the new rules.
"We're in a sort of Catch-22, because we have to prove that this project is not a danger to birds" but there is no project of its size to compare it to, said Peter Crone, a director of Farm Energy, a renewable energy specialist that is one of the winning bidders.
