Sentence examples for sort of august from inspiring English sources

With its mere seven articles, America's constitution is a thing of beauty.Jorge Barriga StockholmCambodia's electionSIR – Although the Cambodian People's Party and Hun Sen, its leader and Cambodia's prime minister, may be guilty of corruption and human-rights violations ("Stability, sort of", August 2nd), the runner-up Sam Rainsy Party is no paragon.

Nothing -- not even the sort of August debate that usually attracts the notice of no one but local journalists and political junkies -- is cut and dried.

It had been thought that no EU countries could send weapons before 1 August, but the British foreign secretary told BBC Radio 4 that this was wrong: I must correct one thing because I know there's been discussion of some sort of August deadline.

The Supreme Court in 1985 declared Long Island to be a mainland extension and not an island on legal, administrative, and social grounds ("Is Long Island an Island? Well, Sort Of," letter, Dec. 5).

Dr. Joyce and his colleagues next proceeded to engineer a sort of March Madness for molecules.

I began by admiring some very nice crisp, nurse-white summer dresses — sort of June Cleaver by Carolina Herrera.

If you suspect this is some sort of April Fools' joke, rest assured, we could not possibly make this up.

It seems as if every cultural institution, television network and book publisher feels duty-bound to produce some sort of Sept. 11 commemoration.

With a decibel meter in his hands, he hustled onstage and looked out at a raucous crowd ready to take part in a different sort of March Madness.

Voters tend to make up their minds early on, and, absent some sort of "October surprise," there isn't much movement in the polls during the last few weeks.

But if Mr. Obama is having days like this in the polls a week from now, then Mr. Romney is either going to be banking on an exceptionally lopsided turnout, or some sort of October surprise.