The phrase "a sort of response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a type or category of response that is not definitive or specific.
Example: "Her answer was a sort of response to the question, but it didn't fully address the issue at hand."
Alternatives: "a kind of reply" or "a type of answer".
Initially such effects were considered to be responsible for the anorexiant actions of the drugs, due to a sort of response competition between eating and grooming/scratching behaviors.
Blue Man Group was founded in the 1980s as a sort of response to and rejection of performance and cultural norms.
Mr. Isaac has suggested that "Merriwether" was a sort of response to "Waiting for Godot," so you hear those echoes as well.
He also dismissed the notion that the Echo was released as a sort of response to the company's oft-maligned shot at the mobile space, the Fire Phone, instead insisting that the company develops many of its products simultaneously.
I tried talking to the players but I only got a sort of preoccupied response.
So I think the obsession with culture is a sort of healthy response to the state our organizations are in.
Michael Fuchs, the former chief executive of HBO who is developing a program that he described as a sort of male response to "Sex and the City," recently asked them whether sex was ever a topic of conversation.
I questioned whether this had anything to do with light but later we stood among a group of tall pines each with an interesting lilt showing a sort of collective response to their location and the energy was strong again.
But also I see the impulse to preserve food as a sort of utopic response to excess and bounty.
Inevitably, even when such kinds of difficult information might be expected, there is a sort of "turtling" response where people go deep inside themselves for a spell.
In addition, the contraction process reduces the area to be resurfaced by reepithelialization, which represents a sort of ergonomic response.
