The phrase "ask the sort of" is not standard in written English and may be confusing.
It could be used in informal contexts where someone is trying to inquire about a specific type or category of something.
Example: "I want to ask the sort of questions that will help me understand the topic better."
Alternatives: "inquire about the type of" or "request the kind of".
The authors ask the sort of questions that only occur to dismal scientists.
There are television reporters who require equipment that gets in the way and who ask the sort of question that makes Edna impatient.
I decided to ask the sort of questions I always want to put to my closest male friends in drunken moments.
"American audiences ask the sort of questions I sometimes think English audiences would like to ask but don't dare to," Lively replies when I ask how she recovered.
Instead of telling David Axelrod that his boss promised to change the tone in Washington so why aren't there any Republican votes for health care?... which he thinks is getting "tough" with a guest, Gregory's job would simply be to ask the sort of questions, the answers to which could be fact checked later in the week.
There were also, from what I observed, a handful of quiet superhero-comic-book fans who revered Super Goat Man in that capacity and were covertly basking in his aura, ashamed to ask the sorts of questions I'd peppered him with in his room in the communal house so long ago.
Who hates gays more than Muslims?" At this point, it would be useful to ask the sorts of questions that are normally asked in screenwriting workshops, to "break the story" of this two-minute hate.
Election officials across the country should be asking the sort of tough questions Ms. Brunner and Mr. Coffman have.
Surfing the television stations on Sunday evening, I was detained by a programme that asked the sort of questions about language usually confined to specialists.
No one has breathed down my neck, asking the sort of questions that might have made us doubt ourselves (we ask enough of those ourselves).
I spent time with my best mate, who asked the sort of awkward questions that only best mates friends can get away with.
