The phrase "a sort of compound" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or has characteristics of a compound, often in a more informal or vague context.
Example: "The mixture created a sort of compound that had unique properties not found in the individual ingredients."
Alternatives: "a type of compound" or "a kind of compound".
This city could be anywhere, but I visualized it as a sort of compound of my native Manchester, Leningrad, and New York.
The column, two feet across, has a sort of compound fracture -- the top has been pushed a foot south of the piece it is resting on.
To think of his schooldays is, he says, "to breathe in a whiff of something cold and evil-smelling – a sort of compound of sweaty stockings, dirty towels, faecal smells blowing along corridors, forks with old food between the prongs, neck-of-mutton stew, and the banging doors of the lavatories and the echoing chamber-pots in the dormitories".
We followed on as they drove into this police station that was in a sort of compound, surrounded by wire netting.
Ah ah ah roo!"—and making both sounds at once, a sort of compound gurgling, that of a tortuously dying animal.
Ah ah ah roo!" – and making both sounds at once, a sort of compound gurgling, that of a tortuously dying animal.
It is possible that their often thousands of spaced aesthetes, in addition to similar organs in the soft tissues surrounding their shells, provide the entire exposed surface of the animal with a sort of giant compound eye, allowing a coordinated response.
Instead of relief, they express anxiety and disappointment when they step outside the three-building compound, a sort of YWCA-like centerity center for women that accommodates the UNFPA program participants but also offers vocational training such as sewing and tailoring.
Working in the laboratory of Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, an associate professor in ECE, McCormick developed an organic deposition technique called RIR-MAPLE that can produce a thin film with a rough surface that acts as a sort of Velcro for volatile organic compounds.
The secondary waste generated during the metallurgical operations, i.e., zinc ash, zinc dross, flux, flue dust from electric arc furnace, automobile junks and sludge, contains very high amount of zinc in the form of some sort of compound or derivatives.
