The phrase "a sort of collection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a group of items or things that are gathered together, but not necessarily in a formal or complete manner.
Example: "The museum features a sort of collection of ancient artifacts that tell the story of our civilization."
Alternatives: "a type of collection" or "a kind of collection".
The stage is made up of luminous cubes (some filled with water), suggesting a sort of collection of Petri dishes in which Kayleen and Doug cultivate their own self-baffling personalities.
In a sense, the book is itself a sort of collection – of anecdotes, of second-hand stories – that, while it is chatty and informal, is at the same time a serious attempt to put in order what we normally regard as trivial: slips of the tongue, mis-spellings, a dropped pot or stubbed toe.
After the dust settles, I envision the paid internet as a sort of collection of walled towns, or city-states.
Some philosophers of mathematics hold that proper classes still constitute unities, and hence can be seen as a sort of collection.
It was a sort-of amusing collection of outlandish caricatures, quirky catchphrases and semi-decent sight gags that probably outstayed its welcome at the time, and is definitely doing so now.
He goes on to say that it is not the idea of the Opry which offends him, or the calibre of its music, but the way it is being run, as a sort of haphazard collection of performers.
Also, the book as I originally imagined it was going to be very different: I had planned a sort of light collection of comic essays about travel and being abroad, not all necessarily from this time.
Like Kieran Hebden, Sam Shepherd is a UK DJ-producer whose music roams a sort of record collection of the mind: from funk to jazz, to electronica, hip-hop and post-rock.
Officials have announced a plan to assemble all the recovered treasures into a permanent exhibit — a sort of Ghiya Collection of South Asian Art — which would be displayed at Hawa Mahal, Jaipur's beautiful, tapering Palace of Winds, in the heart of the Pink City.
Observe from the above application of Corollary 3.3 that we have a sort of unusual collection of conditions - namely, that y must be 'initially' negative, increasing, and convex.
JAMES GLANZ Ms. Williams, who teaches introductory physics and astronomy at San Francisco State University, recently released a CD titled "Cosmic Cabaret," a sort of greatest hits collection.
