"a sort of death" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation that is like death, but not a physical death. For example, you could use it to describe a situation in which a person is not free to do as they please: "The imprisonment felt like a sort of death."
"It's a sort of death wish.
Is Dolan picturing a marriage altar as a sort of death panel?
For a collection of former posts about the decline of Research In Motion which collectively, in retrospect, form a sort of "death watch"–see the below.
Gabriel discovers his wife has more intense feelings for a boy she loved long ago than for him, relegating him to a sort of death in life.
He describes life in Theresienstadt as a sort of "death in slow motion," a "model" camp with its simulacra of free and autonomous life conducted in the shadow of executions and feared deportations to "the East" (which, the camp inhabitants ultimately learned, meant Auschwitz).
After making a case that brain death is easily misdiagnosed and that death can be a construct of convenience, Teresi next places his body between the transplant team and patients who exist in a sort of "death lite" netherworld, with a nonresponsive cortex but a functioning brain stem.
"The Green Mile," a sort of death-row fairy tale, won a best picture nomination right after Florida got queasy about its electric chair -- too many people bursting into flames, as in the movie -- and within weeks of the Illinois moratorium on executions.
Coutts jumped ship to BMW Oracle, where he's been training on the 90-foot catamaran Ellison built as a sort of death-star challenger should he fail to reach an agreement with Bertarelli to race more conventional yachts.
Now, take a few minutes to fantasize about the weekend via our jam-packed itinerary... Start the weekend by exercising your visual literacy at the A Lovely Sort of Death opening at HVW8 Gallery off of Melrose.
15 Cellular death after doxorubicin therapy does not occur by apoptosis, but is a sort of "dirty death" with release of toxic metabolites into the surrounding tissue, initiating a local chain reaction involving neighboring cells.
Or an Egyptian scroll of the dead, on papyrus, a sort of official death register complete with blanks to fill in.
