Sentence examples similar to sort of centuries from inspiring English sources

At one end, wickets tumbled as Australian batsmen scored 14, 36, 19, 4, 39 and 12, while at the other Ponting compiled the sort of century that makes those questions about his skill as a captain seem basically irrelevant.

It also folds in a well-constructed argument about the way the Internet era has encouraged empty exhibition and a half-baked argument about violence and bullying, before ending with a sci-fi monologue delivered by a British female voice that seems to suggest that Prince has been placed in some sort of centuries-long suspended animation.

Parading a saint's skull through the streets is the sort of centuries-old ritual that's a regular occurrence in the Monti Madonie, the hilly landscape that careens from the coast above Cefalù inland to the edge of the Catania-Palermo highway.

What groups like Fischerspooner and clubs like Berliniamsburg, Electro-Sweat in Chicago and Trash in London represent is a sort of 21st-century update of late-19th-century decadence, à la Oscar Wilde and J. K. Huysmans's novel "Against Nature".

In a sort of 21st-century echo of Great Game politics, the 19th-century rivalry between Russia and Britain over Central Asia, Russia is also wary of Azerbaijan's relationship with the West.

Or a sort of 21st century textbook.

It describes her as "a sort of 21st-century Holly Golightly", which seems a bit harsh.

You might say that America began as a sort of 17th-century Holy Land Experience.

"It is an incredibly revolutionary concept, a sort of 21st-century fashion show — half cinema, half fashion," Mr. Lima said.

Paul Weller, Trevor Noah, James Acaster, Felicity Ward and Beardyman gave a glimpse of what could be a successful sort of 21st-century variety mash-up.

The entire crowd reconvenes for a traditional quadrille at midnight, a sort of 19th-century square dance.