The phrase "a sort of stage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that resembles or functions like a stage, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The conference room felt like a sort of stage, where ideas were presented and debated in front of an audience."
Alternatives: "a kind of platform" or "a type of setting".
In 1988, they changed the name of a sort of Stage 0 of the cervix.
They are appealing foils — Burns's guitar is often like a second voice, high and impossibly unpleasant, and a sort of stage lighting for Walker, creating ghostly soft tones.
But at least, while many previously promising theatre-writers were stolen by TV or cinema, the latest group have compromised by writing a sort of stage screenplay.
"In my romanticized version of how medical acting works from the performer's perspective, I like to think that this is essentially still a sort of stage for the actor.
Almost a decade later, Judge Merrick B. Garland and Ms. Kagan, who is now United States solicitor general, are again sharing a sort of stage, as front-runners for a spot on the Supreme Court.
Description of the billboard which is a sort of stage where 3 women, hired by the dress manufacturing firm of Andrew Arkin, Inc., model dresses 3 times a day--at 9 AM, noon & 5PM.
When we say that laughter "lifts our spirits," we mean that it works as a sort of stage-managed resurrection — we are somehow taken out of ourselves, and carried back into the moment.
But others said many tenants were greatly inconvenienced by noise and dust, especially those on the second floor, which had scaffolding all the way around it and served as a sort of staging area, said Andy Humm, the president of the London Terrace Gardens Tenants Association.
Why has it become "a sort of empty stage"?
A few large chandeliers have survived from the 11th and 12th centuries, representing a sort of halfway stage between sculpture and functional objects.
In Washington, Richard Boucher, the State Department spokesman, said that the administration was in "a sort of intermediate stage" of consultations with Security Council members and nations near Iraq.
