The phrase "a sort of house" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of house that may not fit a specific category or to indicate a resemblance to a house without being exactly one.
Example: "The structure was a sort of house, blending elements of a cabin and a modern home."
Alternatives: "a kind of house" or "a type of house".
She wore a sort of house gown, as crumpled as the bed and with curry stains on it.
Once again the album will feature the Robert Glasper Experiment as a sort of house band, with Mr. Glasper — a pianist of roughly equal stature in modern jazz, hip-hop and R&B — steering the ship.
He was in prison for nearly four years during the second world war, then under a sort of house arrest, not allowed to live within 20 miles of London or to travel more than five miles from his home.
He spent one night on the pool table in the basement of the house of our friend Hinkley, and while we were at school the next day he shoplifted a billiard-room talc dispenser from Sears and screwed it to the frame of a door near the cue rack, as a sort of house present.
He was a musician and songwriter; one of the minds behind Dr. Buzzard; later the full inventor and lead persona of Kid Creole and the Coconuts; and a sort of house producer at Ze Records, a bizarre and fruitful New York art-pop label in the late '70s and '80s.
Some of the current "Sing-Off" participants might well have developed an interest in the music as youngsters listening to Rockapella when it was a sort of house band on the 1990s PBS children's show "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" Mr. Altman said he found the mixture of groups in "The Sing-Off" and other a cappella competitions somewhat odd, since there are wide variations in the genre.
"I became a sort of house-husband, looking after my son, who was still very, very young," he says.
That might be because, for years, bisexuality has been maligned as homosexuality's no-good cousin-a sort of halfway house between straight respectability and full-blown gay-dom.
The national taxpayer advocate, a sort-of in-house IRS watchdog, once said, "If tax compliance were an industry, it would be one of the largest in the United States".
"They have got the house they want, a sort of crony house, and I think that will continue for many years indeed".
Memling took the old reliquary containing Ursula's remains – a wooden box, which people had been coming to touch for hundreds of years – and then housed it in a sort of dolls' house in the shape of a miniature church.
