The phrase "a sort of instant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a moment or experience that feels immediate or fleeting, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "In a sort of instant, everything changed, and I realized how fragile life could be."
Alternatives: "a kind of moment" or "a type of flash".
The dream was to write an algorithm, a sort of instant grammar, that the machine would learn and then use to translate sentences at warp speed.
It will give you a sort of instant teleportation, a way to travel without travel, a sense of a place without having to go there.
The social nature of the Web will encourage a sort of instant global consensus on important issues, with little time for filtering, comparison or critical analysis.
But May and Walsh experienced a sort of instant celebrity by starring in a Visa commercial that was first televised during this year's Super Bowl.
He ordered the planting of tens of thousands of young trees in immensely long rows at the center of Ashgabat and on great swaths of land outside the city, a sort of instant forest.
And when you do that and couple it with the battery technology that they've come up with, which is a sort of instant recharge battery," what will result is widespread electric transportation.
Adriano Shaplin, who wrote the piece and also portrays Lieutenant Freud, the missionÂs marksman and resident smart aleck, conveys the goings-on as a sort of instant-history transcript.
If not, just look for coarse cornmeal or polenta (which can often be found in the Caribbean section of supermarkets) – avoid any sort of instant polenta.
And Vine's popularity among basketball and soccer fans as a sort of crowdsourced instant-highlight reel certainly didn't help either.
The text at work in this book is even more demolished than usual, borrowing all sorts of instant message language and over-the-top techno-age potty-mouth talk, coupled together with a perverse take on Disney icons and child-dream babble.
