Sentence examples for sort of figure from inspiring English sources

Colin Bouwer was this sort of figure.

That sort of figure was unexpected.

In the Treasury, £174m is the sort of figure that gets lost in the rounding.

His nickname is Topolino, Italy's version of Mickey Mouse.Mr Rutelli cuts a different sort of figure.

He appeared to be the sort of figure for whom Patty Wetterling first envisaged a private law-enforcement registry.

At a time when Abstract Expressionism ruled, he took up a seemingly old-fashioned, academic sort of figure painting.

It's the sort of figure that grabs media headlines, but it also exaggerates the depth of the relationship.

This sort of figure would not be seen again in the US economy until 2006, just before the global financial crisis.

And he began by praising some words of the French existentialist Albert Camus -- not the sort of figure one would expect to hear quoted at an evangelists' conference.

"It's hard to look back and sort of figure out what you can take out of that game," Amani Toomer said Friday.

But there is little doubt that Sandberg is also the sort of figure that any woman – and, indeed, any man – should find admirable.