'something of the kind' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe a type of thing that has already been mentioned and is similar to it. For example: "Do you know of any other books like this one? Something of the kind?".
It's possible for something of the kind to occur in Muslim countries.
"I wouldn't have become a diplomat without this perspective of someday doing something of the kind".
Microsoft has long been under pressure to do something of the kind from analysts and investing institutions.
Something of the kind is in the works, although credit unions may not become full-fledged banks.
It was something of the kind that prompted Tolstoy to write "Strider", his story of a talking horse.
But unless he does something of the kind, he is unlikely to get a solid agreement out of the Palestinians, however multilateral the escorting party.
He said: "The prosecution case is that Stuart Hazell had a sexual attraction for Tia Sharp, that there was some form of sexual assault, something of that kind, and that was the reason he killed her".
Something of the same kind may account for the way in which our species bafflingly combines characteristics found in both chimpanzees and bonobos and has interlaced these together with entirely new features.
When I got the effect he wanted, he beamed with real pleasure, aesthetic pleasure, and the pleasure of having communicated something precious — the kind of pleasure that life should be all about.
His second claim is questionable, since it seems that, like many other things, one can only correctly judge the value of something in terms of the kind of thing it really is (Walton 1970 , 1988, and the kinds of things musical works, performances, and so on, are is precisely the central question of musical ontology.
"Now the van is an extension of me; it says something about the kind of woman I am".
