Sentence examples for performing a sort of from inspiring English sources

There's also a naked figure, performing a sort of swan dive across the harp's strings.

And then there's George W. Bush, who passed out in the process of eating a pretzel stick, performing a sort of auto-Heimlich.

The most important intervention of all is the capacity of nuclear weapons for ending human life-in effect, performing a sort of abortion on the entire species.

For someone whose mind usually races ahead of everyone else's, performing a sort of mental parkour, it's fitting that Brin should prefer wheels to shoes.

The most important intervention of all is the capacity of nuclear weapons for ending human life-in effect performing a sort of abortion on the entire species.

During one of his brief moments onstage at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, the guitarist Trey Anastasio likened being in a rock band to performing a sort of community service.

The community development corporation performs a sort of triage on the neighbourhood: those houses that don't make the grade are slated for demolition.

Wall Street's core function is to perform a sort of financial alchemy, an incredibly complicated method of giving a lot of people what they want.

I would also argue that such frank titles perform a sort of public service as they remove any risk of a puritanical viewer attending the play and claiming that they hadn't expected graphic language.

In the end, the night belonged to Russell Brand, who performed a sort of comic duet with Noel Fielding, and later dandied on stage for his own eight-and-a-half minute routine – the longest of the night.

Instead the components of the inner ear perform a sort of Fourier transform to untangle the composite pressure wave, teasing out each specific frequency and their associated amplitudes in order to covert them into a spectrum of electrical signals which is sent to the brain.