Sentence examples for sort of referring from inspiring English sources

The primary focus in this article will be on the first two of these questions, those concerning the mechanism of reference and whether there is a single mechanism common to each sort of referring term.

Indexicals, on the other hand, are a fundamentally different sort of referring term, for which an entirely different sort of theory is appropriate.

So I wrote the last "Where were the black rats when we needed them the most, there were slave owners to infect and the Joe Mengeles of the American West" sort of referring to the American holocaust of the Indians.

One school nurse concluded: "...we (school nurses) have a certain level of knowledge, but we don't have the knowledge that these parents that have spent hours researching- you know- they're sort of referring to twelve sources.

SH: In a way now, people sort of refer to Safe and Far from Heaven as companion pieces.

But she acknowledged harboring an even grander one: "Since I sort of refer to the Answer Book as Local Jeopardy," she said, "I wouldn't mind seeing a local Jeopardy contest using the book as reference".

Ramis remembers, "He sort of referred immediately to Animal House as 'my movie.' We'd been living with it for two years and we hated that".

Or do different sorts of referring expressions refer in different ways?

I actually think in our segment we'll probably see some sort of–I'll refer to it as a technical upturn perhaps in the third and fourth quarters.

A reporter then asked if she had any second thoughts about this sort of role, referring specifically to the posters where Ms. Berry is in a very unempowered stance, crawling on all fours.

Proper names do not, on this sort of view, refer by way of the descriptions they allegedly stand for; they refer directly to their bearers.