How to Use of one kind/sort/type or another in a Sentence

of one kind/sort/type or another

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  • Some are in tents, most in tiny homes of one kind or another.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
  • But stains of one kind or another are all over Ruscha’s work.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • While most of the characters are grad students of one kind or another, not all are.
    — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • Bureaucrats of one sort or another have taken the place of princes and counts.
    — David Pryce-Jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Some who made the journey were idealists of one sort or another.
    — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • So, yes, obviously, there is a weapon of one kind or another.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • Humans have been a presence of one kind or another in the region ever since.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Each week, more than 1,000 people come through their doors to seek help of one kind or another.
    — Dallas News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Consider that within a car, such as in the engine, there are likely many wheels of one kind or another.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Narcotics deaths almost all involve opioids of one type or another.
    — Casey B. Mulligan, National Review, 8 Feb. 2022
  • All politicians are performers of one sort or another, the lucky ones by dint of natural gifts.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • Except for some years teaching English abroad, all of my jobs have been as a writer of one sort or another.
    — Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But the reality is these are all drones of one kind or another, with different forms of propulsion.
    — NBC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Still, even the best modern big-budget video game narratives tend to focus on power fantasies of one type or another.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2023
  • All writers are chameleons of one sort or another, blending into the background to better observe the world and people around them.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Nearly every American state offers hot springs of one sort or another.
    — Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • So many hugely talented players fall victim to pitfalls of one type or another early in their careers.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But every Hong Kong location required a big overhaul of one kind or another.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 17 June 2024
  • People commuting to work, in the grocery store, out for a run or in the gym are almost always wearing headphones of one kind or another.
    — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Almost every season, the state of refereeing seems to be in a crisis of one kind or another, as game-swinging calls are missed or botched.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Often, regulations of one kind or another start in one state and then are reused or recast when other states opt to do something similar.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • All are artists of one sort or another, and all reside in homes that appear ripped from the pages of Architectural Digest.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The most memorable productions may have involved classics of one kind or another, but these works were reborn in stagings that refused to play it safe.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Nearly all the candidates are promising to cut taxes of one sort or another to cushion the blow of a spiraling cost-of-living crisis.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • People still listen to music in their car or on headphones, of course, and many others have multichannel audio setups of one kind or another.
    — Michael Owen, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Many attract pollinators of one kind or another; some are edible or medicinal; and a few even produce winter seed for songbirds.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2022
  • While most lab tests report results on a scale of one kind or another, those from MRG-Effitas lean toward pass/fail.
    — PCMAG, 14 June 2024
  • Many content creators seemed unfazed by data privacy concerns, noting that every social media platform comes with risks of one kind or another.
    — Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • When asked about the biggest single problem facing the nation, roughly a third of Americans cite economic issues of one sort or another.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Arkansas Methodists have been holding sunrise services of one kind or another for more than 100 years, in communities large and small.
    — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 11 Mar. 2023

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