The phrase "a type of something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when categorizing or describing a specific kind or classification of an object, concept, or phenomenon.
Example: "A smartphone is a type of mobile device that combines cellular and computing functions."
Alternatives: "a kind of something" or "a category of something".
If there's a 'normal' type of something, typically there's a Gothic version.
JPMorgan argues that its trade started out as a type of hedge -- something that would have been permitted under the Volcker Rule -- but morphed into something resembling proprietary trading.
I didn't know that could be a type of test for something.
That's a type of spatial ionic crystal, something physicists have played with for years.
Peter Bruce, professor of chemistry at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, is reviving interest in a type of battery that is something like a fuel cell.
The title of the lecture, projected on a giant PowerPoint screen, conveyed the crux of the dilemma: "The Double Effect: Is it the Drug or the Disease?" "Some people speculate that people are really covering up the fact that this is really perhaps a type of euthanasia or maybe something else that's really afoot," Dr. Correoso said.
Hipsters were a type of underpants, and sliders were something produced exclusively by a fat man with an earring called "Shane".
"You wonder who you're bumping into now in the street," added another neighbor, Kim Bergan, 51. "You think you know people who live in a type of an area, and then something like this happens".
Book covers are typically created by in-house designers, but Coates said he wanted Rawles to "read the work, feel a type of way and then create something," which is to say, be inspired rather than directed by him or his work.
Turns out, he says, it's partly from a type of sand, and partly from something called diatoms, fossils of prehistoric algae.
"We wanted Jokgu (which is Korean for a type of football/soccer game) to play something that I thought at the heart is so true ― that America is Beautiful.
