"sorted among" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to arrange or categorize things within a larger group or list. Example: The books were sorted among the shelves according to their genres.
Schmidt and the students, bearing several large bags of Neolithic detritus, return to Urfa for a late lunch — the Schmidts keep an excellent Turkish cook — and everyone spends the rest of the afternoon at the house, processing the day's finds, which are sorted among various buckets and rectangular sieves in the courtyard.
93% of these phages could be sorted among the four neck Types by our approach (Table 4).
The 87 trout collected from 19 sites were sorted among three species and one genus: S. ohridanus (5), S. letnica (5) and S. peristericus (20), and Salmo sp. (57).
Sorting among the choices proves to be too confusing.
"Let's just say that a noncontrolling stake could be north of 25 percent," he said, adding that the team is sorting among serious individuals and groups, and others who are less qualified.
The strong rhythm section erased its tracks all the time, sorting among shifts in tempo and feel, routing through grooves and far less comfortable patterns; it used strong consonant riffs and bizarrely raw (though never haphazard) atonal harmonies.
Variation of sorting among cows was also determined.
Several suggested advantages of enhanced pollen competition furthermore involve the capacity to sort among haploid pollen (rather than among diploid fathers).
Conversely, under an allopatric speciation model we would expect the degree of incomplete lineage sorting among gene trees to be similar for both species.
1.2 Equivalence: Two entities are equivalent under a particular selective force in a particular environment, if this selection process cannot sort among them better than random.
Since selection was defined simply as sorting that causes differential survival of entities (definition 1.1 above), one can say that selection can sort among a population of entities without any kind of reproduction.
