right sort

Example Sentences

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As for the batting, England played the right sort of game here.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

“If someone comes to the house, I say, ‘Come and look at this,’ if they are the right sort of person,” he said.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2024

The FBI thought they had the right sort of man — a first-generation issei immigrant who was bilingual, could write in English and was held in high esteem in the community.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2023

Few Gazans had the right sort of hives to withstand it.

From Reuters • Nov. 22, 2022

In France, Mersenne received a rather garbled account of Torricelli’s experiment and tried unsuccessfully to reproduce it, but he lacked the right sort of glass tube.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton