Sentence examples for poor sort from inspiring English sources

The titular Jim Dixon is an academic of a pretty poor sort, a medievalist who only picked the period because it looked like a soft option.

They steal money to give to the poor (sort of) but are basically on a Zen mission to do all this radical show-off stuff as a tribute to capital-N Nature.

While it is true that localized planing of a very poor sort, such as removing high spots, can be done with such a scraper, the difference in design and action between the two is too great to proclaim the scraper the forerunner of the plane.

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.

There are championships that feel won, and those that feel like a poor sort of consolation prize.

The White Queen says, "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards".

The abundance of unstable minerals with poor sorting indicates rapid mechanical erosion and deposition, as in alluvial fans or in density currents (i.e., highly turbid bottom currents) resulting from gravity flows.

They are generally moderate to poor sorted (Fig. 3b) as seen in the thin sections.

The sand dam on the lakeshore exhibits relatively low maturity, moderately poor sorting and roundness, and strong inheritance of provenance.

They are composed of all grain size classes; often several classes are present in one layer resulting in poor sorting.

The poor sorting and massive character of sediments may indicate a kind of sediment gravity mass flow (expected during backwash).