The phrase "a sort of docking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or process that resembles docking, often in a metaphorical sense, such as connecting or aligning two things.
Example: "The software update acts as a sort of docking procedure, ensuring that all components are synchronized before the launch."
Alternatives: "a kind of connection" or "a type of alignment".
Receptors are found on the surface of cells, much like pins sticking out of a pin cushion, and act as a sort of docking port, sometimes for lethal viruses.
It's how the latest MacBook Pros can run dual Thunderbolt displays that each feature a sort of docking station with three USB ports, one FireWire port, Gigabit Ethernet, and another Thunderbolt port.
Instead of a home button, users will perform actions using on-screen gesture controls involving a sort of dock of icons.
This makes it easy to see what is currently running and coupled with a sort of mini dock at the top of non-clickable icons, the Vita OS becomes more like a mini computer than a games machine.
Today JBL announced the On Stage 3 comes with all sort of dock adapters to meet your iPod needs and a 3.5mm jack allows you to hook up your CD player, laptop or what have you.
Encasing the terse viral genomes are capsids, protective coats constructed of interlocking protein modules and decorated with some sort of docking device, a pleat of just the right shape to infiltrate a particular cell.
The first type of docking station almost always connects to a slot on the bottom rear of the laptop, so if you're using this sort of docking station, check the back of your laptop to make sure this slot is open.
Both have dual docking ports and the ability to mix audio between both iDevices for a sort of DJ mode Pioneer has dubbed Double Shuffle.
Somewhere, a recording of seagulls in Bristol docks is playing, interspersed with voices reading Tuerlinckx's writing, which form a sort of lexicon to her art.
