The phrase "a sort of sake" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or is similar to sake, often in a metaphorical or comparative context.
Example: "The drink was a sort of sake, brewed from local rice and infused with herbs."
Alternatives: "a type of sake" or "a kind of sake".
He wrote a guide to sake last year, "Sake: Water From Heaven" (Universe Publishing), and started the RKA Sake Club, a sort of sake-of-the-month organization.
"The Joy of Sake," a sort of traveling road show promoting the pleasures of sake and food, comes to the Puck Building in New York on Sept. 30, offering a chance to taste almost 200 sakes paired with foods prepared by restaurants like Asiate, Bond Street and Riingo.
(Informant 3) There's got to be a good reason to want to do it, rather than just the, sort of, sake of labeling somebody which would be great, you know, because then we'd get points for the dementia register.
The professional cynicism of Collet-Serra's flip drama is matched by some serious critical enthusiasm for the film, where the very notion of craft and technique is exalted for its own sake, in a sort of populistic-academic congealment of the concept of the auteur.
Going by the moniker "Violent Hippie Leaf Art," Marshall says, "I feel I am taking a symbol of peace, and doing a sort of violence to it for the sake of art".
Going by the moniker "Violent Hipp(i e (Leaf) Art," Marshall says, "I feel I am taking a symbol of peace, and doing a sort of violence to it for the sake of art".
It was a sort of last hurrah, for old time's sake.
"Of course, the indication is that next Thursday is a sort of showpiece - the circus act for the sake of media - it's not getting down to the nitty gritty.
For the sake of domestic tranquility, he became a sort of helpline.
Even when we aren't directly performing an act of worship, so much of what we do is indirectly for the sake of God, and this adds a sort of blessing to all of those typical Ramadan stories.
