The phrase "a sort of token" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as a symbol or representation of something else, often in a vague or non-specific manner.
Example: "The gift was a sort of token of appreciation for all her hard work on the project."
Alternatives: "a kind of symbol" or "a type of representation".
"They do have you meet with the Palestinian leaders, in a sort of token process," Baird said.
It has the vibe of college radio in the late 1990s, a sort of token nod to traditional values that the station contradicts freely, and with a lot of fun, the other 166 hours a week.
Through charitable donations, Hoffman tries to provide a sort of token safety net.
As a sort of token of their crazy day together, they take the two most adorable and least crazy little kids with them in the end and the kids seem pretty pumped about it because, yeah, right, like you wouldn't want to be adopted by Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton.
Given that the plane's maximum take-off weight is 560 tonnes, the measure seems tokenistic, but it's a sensible sort of token.
For instance, [32] developed a lexicon in which positive and negative values are associated to words, hashtags, and any sort of tokens according to the frequency with which these tokens appear in tweets containing positive and negative emoticons.
We need to think of the device as being the physical entry token to a sort-of club membership, of ownership as access rather than as a singular tangible entity.
Doing so will net you a few perks, including a special, pre-order-only cloak and some sort of token that can later be redeemed for a mysterious prize.
But he needed to give me some sort of token responsibility, so I was a 32-year-old ring bearer (next to a two-year-old flower girl) at my little brother's wedding".
On the other hand, with the key attached anyone can open the lock at will, so the lock itself practically ceases to exist, except as a token, a sort of ghost lock, fading away to join all the other misty paradoxes of the ever mysterious East.
