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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sort of sixth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is similar to or resembles a sixth element or category, often in a metaphorical or comparative context.
Example: "In this new theory, time is presented as a sort of sixth dimension that interacts with the other five."
Alternatives: "a kind of sixth" or "a type of sixth".
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Atop a hill, the Sensory Garden features six rooms with flowers and fixtures (like wind chimes) chosen to illustrate the five senses as well as a sort of sixth sense, imagination.
"To work successfully in physics or mathematics, one is helped by a sort of sixth sense that lets one guess what a good approach might be," he told me.
"All animals have a sort of sixth sense in selecting people in whom to place their confidence," C. P. Long wrote about Megargee in The New York Herald Tribune.
Maybe from the friction caused by nervously squirming around in my chair, a sort of sixth grade PTSD.
Even the barbs seemed to come in a sort of sixth form end-of-term-review style.
Animals, like babies, have a sort of "sixth sense" about people who want to be friendly or like animals.
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So perhaps Crouch's concept of "the guide" offers us a sort-of third way, one in which theatre makers don't have to make a brutal and sometimes impossible choice between pandering and patronising.
It's been called bad because it appears to be a truncated, unauthorized version of the play-a sort of seventeenth-century bootleg.
Ms. Chlumsky turns up as a sort of third point in a semi-romantic triangle.
That night I was on a sort of second-line "anything else" kind of alert.
MacArthur still rides over the Pentagon like a sort of fifth horseman of the Apoclaypse.
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