The phrase "a sort of watch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or functions similarly to a watch, but may not be a traditional watch.
Example: "He wore a gadget that was a sort of watch, tracking his fitness and heart rate."
Alternatives: "a type of watch" or "a kind of watch".
"The Normal Heart" is a war play, a powerful piece of propaganda — a sort of "Watch on the Rhine" for the plague years — and this is both its asset and its limitation: the play is important to the social history of its times rather than to theatre history.
Founded by serial entrepreneurs Tim Stracke and Dirk Schwartz, the site has been live since 2003 but has just recently streamlined its operations to offer a sort of watch search engine that allows users to find timepieces of note from almost anywhere in the world.
They work as a sort of neighborhood watch, and the denizens of the Flats do not cross the imaginary line.
Villagers in Cajamarca, in the country's northern Andes, formed rondas campesinas (a sort of neighbourhood watch) in the 1970s, to tackle cattle-rustling and rural crime.
For a collection of former posts about the decline of Research In Motion which collectively, in retrospect, form a sort of "death watch"–see the below.
Harlan has a very white beard, a fondness for suspenders and a habit of wearing his wristwatch as a sort of pocket watch, dangling oddly from a belt loop.
The event confusingly doubled a benefit for Riverkeeper, a sort of neighborhood watch for waterways, and the walls were adorned with soon-to-be-sold notebooks filled with DBA-pen scribbles by an assortment of Big Names.
Burtt and Rogalski defended the Talon program, which they said provides a centralized way to gather information on possible terrorist threats that come in from citizens, security guards and others, forming a sort of neighborhood watch around defense facilities.
views with the greatest concern any potential violation of the strict DoD policy governing authorized counter-intelligence efforts". The Talon database -- and several affiliated programs -- has been described by officials as a sort of neighborhood watch for the military, an important tool in trying to detect and prevent terrorist attacks against the military.
Think of it as a sort of neighborhood watch.
Village Defense — A sort of neighborhood watch service, providing a way for neighbors to share real-time information on events like burglaries.
