The phrase "a sort of toast" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a type of toast, either in a literal sense (like a food item) or in a figurative sense (like a speech or tribute).
Example: "At the wedding reception, the best man gave a sort of toast that left everyone in tears."
Alternatives: "a kind of toast" or "a type of toast."
Labeled a caramel brioche, it combined a sort of exalted French toast, banana, passion fruit and Stilton cheese to make something buttery, sweet, salty and wholly original.
Winners like yellow-tomato gazpacho soup, a real zinger with sweet bits of watermelon and crab meat, seem to be offset by the very strange shrimp toast, a sort of crostini with damp shrimp sludge heavily applied.
The stage version begins with a heavily edited reading of "Screwtape Proposes a Toast," a sort of epilogue to the "Letters" that Lewis wrote shortly before his death in 1963, in which Screwtape delivers a commencement speech to a graduating class of tempters.
As they waited, they spoke of the stands they head for when they can manage the eleven-thousand-mile trip to Singapore — the coffee shop in their old neighborhood that has the best kaya (a sort of coconut custard, served on toast), the fried-prawn-noodle stand in Marine Parade they always visit the first day back, the place with the best halal version of chicken rice.
Serve with spicy potatoes with spinach (a sort of mock aloo saag), a toasted pitta bread and some boiled rice.
Mr. Kahn particularly liked the part where some Frenchmen mistook the name "Pearl Buck" for some sort of toast.
It's as if it's not enough to be moderately well-meaning, loving but bumbling parents who just about get by, making it up as they go along and kidding themselves that Marmite on toast is a sort of vegetable.
To order a copy for £7.99 with free UK p&p, go to theguardian.com/bookshop This is a sort of less cheesy, more substantial cheese on toast.
The super-soft truffled eggs arrive atop triangular pieces of toast and, when consumed warm, ooze a sort of creaminess that only the best scrambled eggs can bring.
