Sentence examples for sort of succeeded from inspiring English sources

"I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded," she has said.

Some very clever good guys did their best to contain a program made by some very clever bad guys and they sort of succeeded.

Spall went to great lengths to get his drawing and painting right, and sort of succeeds.

Pusha T and Big Sean sort of succeed in Kanye-ish rapping, but Pusha T lacks the inherent star power of West, and Sean, whose goatee suggests that as a child he was adopted by a wild pack of strippers, is only good at rapping about butts.

Best trying-to-be-funny-and-only-sort-of-succeeding bit.

I wish we had some technological or technocratic solution, because the odds of that sort of thing succeeding — if they could succeed — would be better.

The latter's pummelling post-punk answered in the affirmative one other question: would just this sort of act succeed in Derry, as in Dingle, because of the contrast between the intimacy of the surroundings and their noisenik shtick?

Whether this sort of response succeeds remains a matter for debate.

He's the sort-of editor who succeeded the Telegraph's last actual editor, Tony Gallagher, after Tony got dumped in the Seiken psychodrama and went back to his Daily Mail roots.

Wars, invasions, occupations, the undermining or overthrow of governments, brutal acts and conflicts of every sort succeeded one another in the years of American glory.

Already this sort of work has succeeded with an entirely new type of drug to lower levels of LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, he said.