The phrase "a sort of day" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a day that has a particular quality or characteristic, often implying that it is not quite typical or standard.
Example: "It was a sort of day where everything seemed to go wrong, yet somehow it felt oddly comforting."
Alternatives: "a kind of day" or "a type of day".
AND ANSWERS The Lefortovo Routine Q. Could you give us a sort of day in the life of a prisoner at Lefortovo Prison? A. Sure, I'd be delighted to.
During this unusual interval in which I am not thinking of myself for a brief moment, I should mention that kids might like the wares at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden (421 East 61st Street) and also the place itself a restored 1799 carriage house, which, from 1826 until 1833, was a sort of day spa (one of about fifty then in the city).
David Rave, a wildlife manager for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, told The New York Times that the common merganser is one of a number of birds that employ a sort of day care system known as a crèche.
He turned MoMA P.S. 1 into a sort of day shelter for displaced residents.
During this unusual interval in which I am not thinking of myself for a brief moment, I should mention that kids might like the wares at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden (421 East 61st Street) and also the place itself — a restored 1799 carriage house, which, from 1826 until 1833, was a sort of day spa (one of about fifty then in the city).
InTrade — and the bets it handles — have become candy to political junkies of late, a sort of day-trading service for politics.
"It was like Kinky's church, a sort of Sunday service.
"We decided to have a sort of Saturday morning discussion of what we were doing at the time.
"This was a sort of 'Friday afternoon' experiment," Dr. Homewood said, undertaken after many other routes had failed.
At the time, the prosecutor, Lawrence Walsh, called it "a sort of Saturday night massacre" — a reference to high-profile President Richard M. Nixon firings during the thick of the Watergate scandal.
What went on down in the hollow of the hallowed grounds was about as great as it gets, a sort of Saturday version of the final-round 65 shot by a 46-year-old Jack Nicklaus when he won his record sixth green jacket in 1986.
