The phrase "a sort of spell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or feeling that has a magical or enchanting quality, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The music had a sort of spell over the audience, captivating everyone in the room."
Alternatives: "a kind of enchantment" or "a type of magic".
It's a sort of spell of financial irresponsibility that leaves bank accounts stripped, mortgages sunk, jobs lost, and lives bared of comforts and protections.
Singhal says that this long, ongoing conversation with Kalanick ended up conjuring a sort of spell he couldn't resist, especially given that his philanthropic efforts were back on track with the work put into the foundation during the months immediately following his departure from Google.
To appreciate "December," which offers the pleasures of beautifully composed scenes and, when it shifts to Isabelle's point of view, an exact rendering of a child's acute perceptions, the reader must accept that Isabelle has fallen under a sort of existential spell.
But it occurs to me, somewhere around Grint's 30th use of this last construction, that it might be serving as a sort of Rowling-esque spell.
Upon further reflexion, contingent customs impact everything: 'in short, to my way of thinking, there is nothing that custom will not or cannot do'.[44] Montaigne calls it "Circe's drink".[45] Custom is a sort of witch, whose spell, among other effects, casts moral illusion.
You got "American Dub" with a sort of live version of "Spell On You".
Only trained telephone operators, the disembodied voices of the switchboard, had the hand-ear coordination to give the machine the social skills to work the room, a sort of remedial Speak & Spell exercise.
"Dennis is viewed as the éminence grise, a sort of Rasputin who casts a spell over secretaries of state and presidents," said Aaron David Miller, a Middle East expert who has worked with him over several administrations and says he is an admirer.
Marc Mensche, 19, who works in the kitchen and bath department at the Home Depot in Flushing, said: "It's almost like this place is under some sort of spell.
