The phrase "a sort of holding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or state that is somewhat temporary or uncertain, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The project is in a sort of holding pattern until we receive further funding."
Alternatives: "a kind of pause" or "a type of suspension".
Most strikingly, it will also feature a sort of holding pen for parents.
As a sort of holding operation until the stabilisation fund is up and running, the ECB has been buying the bonds of troubled euro-zone countries.
"Voting should fit the way we live" is the slogan of Democracy Works, the nonprofit they created after graduating from the Kennedy School, which is now a sort of holding company for all the initiatives they have launched.
The party appeared to reach the runway via a side door, with a large hold-all seemingly unexamined.Kaliningrad: This airport has a sort of holding pen in which passengers are kept before being released onto the tarmac.
Analysts said investors, especially foreign investors, remained concerned about Hyundai Engineering, which was the original company in the conglomerate and has functioned as a sort of holding company for the other subsidiaries.
Inside the college, I was led into a sort of holding pen to wait while everyone else arrived.
Hild needed a midfielder "who could organise play and also have a sort of hold over the team" and decided to recruit Wenger.
I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'Alright, then, I'll go to hell'--and tore it up...It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said...and I let them stay said, and never thought no more about reforming.
The program also included Christopher Trapani's "Passing Through, Staying Put," a study of contrasting motion (languid lines versus rhythmically driven ones), and Richard Barrett's "codex I," a fascinating, semi-improvised collision of modernity and an imagined antiquity, with spacey electronic sounds as a sort of glue holding the two worlds together.
The whole contraption faced a sort of checkerboard held up on its side.
And in embracing it, I was able to surrender to the book, letting its short, sharp prose jab at me and feeling a sort of numbness take hold.
