Sentence examples for sort of received from inspiring English sources

"This was the sort of received wisdom I would encounter – ridiculous," she scoffs.

I think after four and a half years of working on the memorial design and having now sort of received the go-ahead -- we're about to start construction after July 4 -- generally I prefer not to speak about the controversy anymore.

Afterward, a sort of receiving line developed leading to Mr. Geltman, with friends stopping to share a few words.

It has also upended all sorts of received wisdom.

But she did put them together, "and it was sort of well received.

The Web site said the sort of training received by Mr. Nombo would cost $1,620.

An out-of-sorts Almagro received treatment for a right shoulder problem at the changeover but it did little to improve his mood.

But not as ends unto themselves, not as interesting relics of sorts, received by students as antiquated pieces of history, divorced from their most basic concerns.

(Were they regulars? Ms. Becker's friends? Celebrities of some sort?) They received an amuse-bouche no one else in the room got.

Although the principle of linkage is old, bonds of this sort received their major impetus during the inflationary periods after World Wars I and II.

All sorts of companies receive questionable subsidies and tax exemptions, said Bettina Damiani, the director of Good Jobs New York, an advocacy group that takes a jaundiced view of these goodies.