The phrase "a sort of single" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that resembles or is similar to a single item or concept, often in a vague or non-specific way.
Example: "The artist's latest work is a sort of single that blends various musical styles into one cohesive piece."
Alternatives: "a kind of single" or "a type of single".
And on July 4, a date not selected by coincidence, the groundbreaking is scheduled for the Freedom Tower, a sort of single-spire reincarnation of the twin towers.
"But there is a British saying about horses for courses," Mr. O'Neill added, "and Mike Corbat has a sort of single-minded data approach that is right for the job today".
(These peculiarly Japanese institutions resemble a sort of single-sex, innocent-minded Folies-Bergère; oddly, few men attend their performances, the audiences being, on the whole, as all-girl as the cast).
There is the health spa, the parking lot outside of it, a sort of singles residential motel with a pool, a bar with a Western motif and a shooting range and motorcycle cross-country track behind it, a bus station, and a hospital room; nothing more.
Second Life has become a sort of singles bar for entrepreneurs an inexpensive place to test your ideas and show your results to other like-minded people.
"For us it's nice to be able to come into a campaign with a sort of a single focus and the single focus is to do something that's potentially special," said Gatland.
And so what should entrepreneurs take from the fact that you were able to raise this $1.1 billion fund which I think is – it's two funds but it was a sort of a single raise, right?
In the years since then, the album's sweetly melancholy single "New Slang" became a sort of secret hit single, infiltrating pop culture through commercials and soundtracks.
It's a sort of antidote to single source news apps, like the iPad app for the New York Times, as it pulls in many different sources and presents them in a visual way, not unlike a sort of 'Tweetdeck for news'.
Back then, no one was to know that particular League of Gentlemen line would become a sort of premonition; every single council area in Derbyshire voted to leave the EU.
It turned out to be a sort of Southern tapas, a single roasted clam surrounded by concentric circles of lemon grits and a bacon-tomato butter.
