Sentence examples for sort of better from inspiring English sources
The phrase "sort of better" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a degree of improvement that is not absolute, often in informal contexts. Example: "After the changes were made, the project is sort of better than it was before."
He chooses still to be frustrated by it, saying that he would like to create some sort of "better to-do list", a cross between a calendar, a wiki and other things.
That also could be said of another ensemble work, "Take Place," in which dancers, carrying branches and small trees, depicted people who spoke of their wishes to be in some sort of better place.
A standard first-act flashback structure takes us back to when times were (sort of) better: the lads cobble and banter by day, sing barbershop by night, and struggle unsuccessfully to maintain even one romantic relationship.
In Obama's speech, Christina became a sort of better angel: Imagine for a moment: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she too might play a part in shaping her nation's future.
"In Lincoln's rise from poverty", Mr Obama wrote in Time in 2005, "his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat in all this, he reminded me…of my own struggles," prompting Peggy Noonan, a conservative commentator, to quip that Mr Obama is "like Abraham Lincoln, only sort of better".
It was this new sort of "better safe than sorry" approach, whatever intelligence mistakes were made over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, that led Mr Bush to launch the world's first preventive war for non-proliferation.America's new president is ready to re-engage on arms control, argue for still more radical weapons cuts and make "zero" the guiding thought of his nuclear policy.
"Maybe It Gets Better"? "It Sort of Gets Better, Unless it Doesn't"?
In those 27 years, the same public who were drawn to Vishniac's photographs have been exposed to all sorts of better-nuanced presentations (both scholarly and popular) on European Jewry.
No one does this sort of thing better than Frank Cottrell Boyce.
"You sort of get better at it the more you write," I said.
Formula One does this sort of dual better than any other sport.
