Sentence examples for a sort of net from inspiring English sources

We can infer that bats gradually evolved true flight from a gliding arboreal ancestor, possibly using the gliding membrane as a sort of "net" while the flight stroke evolved.

I've met a number of Chinese who are intrigued by a sort of net theory: the notion that the Chinese do especially well at Ping-Pong, badminton, and volleyball because these are sports in which there is no direct contact between opponents.

House Republican leadership recently protested any sort of net neutrality as unnecessary.

The two Republican commissioners, including Martin, have opposed any sort of net neutrality laws for AT&T or any other telco.

Because Souter must be considered a dependable member of the court's left-of-center minority, President Obama's choice to replace him will not amount to any sort of net gain for the left -- nor would replacements for what are generally considered to be the next two justices to depart, Stevens and Ginsburg.

Emergency hardship payments are meant to pick up some of the pieces of sanctions – a sort of sub-net when the safety net has been cut.

Not so much a book as "a sort of drift net for catching God," writes Jonathan Rosen.

But within this truthfulness, within this disclosure, Knausgaard also constructs a sort of safety net.

One woman was dressed in a mermaidy green robe, wearing a sort of medieval net headdress cinched with a rope.

In addition forests double up as a sort of safety net, providing food, shelter and fuel in the toughest times.

What does it mean for you that the "Shrek" series is coming to an end? A. I realized it's been a sort of safety net.