Collocations for "sort"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "sort" in context.
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sort
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- sort (them) by [color, size, price, popularity]
- are sorted by [color]
- sort (your) [items, purchases, clothes, socks]
- sort into [categories, groups]
- sort from [highest] to [lowest]
- sort and [display, arrange, pack, group, filter]
- sort out your affairs before [leaving, dying]
- sort [good from bad, practical from useless]
- sort through the [garage, basement, attic]
- sort your [garage]
- sort through your [things, clothes, junk]
- sort through the [bag, purse]
- sort out the [problem, disagreement, misunderstanding, mess]
- sort the [problem] out
- sort everything out (for you)
- sort through [hundreds] of [books, paper, boxes]
- the [computer, machine] is sorting the [database, letters]
- UK: sort the wheat from the chaff
- UK: (will) sort the men from the boys
- slang: sort your life out!
- a [kind, friendly, mean, lonely, nice] sort
- it's a sort of [blue, vegetable, fruit]
- [develop, introduce, pioneer] a new sort of
- has some sort of [idea, plan, scheme]
- is a sort of [manager, poet, technician]
- that's just the sort (I need)
- [pose, ask, raise] all sorts of questions
- it takes all sorts!
- it was sort of [helpful, boring, funny]
- that's sort of what I [meant, was asking]
- will [accept, have] nothing of the sort
- what sort of person [would do, does] that?
- is the sort of [person, man, boss] who
- am feeling [a bit, rather, quite] out of sorts
- all sorts of [products, people, questions, properties]
- is a [poet, musician] of sorts
- computing: a [fast, rapid, random] sort
- computing: sort [size, files, cards]
'sort' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
any
- app
- attitude
- bookmark
- category
- catering
- closet
- cluster
- column
- compile
- context
- copy
- crate
- curious
- date
- derive
- devise
- directory
- discrepancy
- dislike
- dispute
- domestic
- feud
- finance
- freak
- genre
- gesture
- harmony
- heap
- involve
- jargon
- junk
- list
- mail
- matching
- matter
- menu
- normal
- order
- piece
- potato
- predicament
- problem
- refuse
- relevance
- review
- size
- smell
- society
- something