"It's sort of like a world on its own. There's no other sport where you're really going up and down.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

If you have any sort of a mass or growth in your neck at the same time, that would be very suspicious."

VOA: special.2009.09.02

That was the sort of thing that made a young man with broadcasting stars in his eyes .

VOA: special.2009.08.16

"It makes for this haunted sort of sound. It's a little bit like a wine glass, when you play a wine glass.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

But this week, Mr.Obama could report apparent success in a different sort of battle -- against the largest accidental oil spill ever at sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

I think trying to understand our world is a really complicated endeavor and it's important to have a sort of solid rational approach like science does."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

"People are sort of fact-checking what they have heard from a doctor.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

And that sort of geared me up for a whole series of novels where I do tons of research, even though I write fiction, which is supposed to be made up,right?"

VOA: special.2009.10.12

"We discovered this bicycle co-op. You can come in there and just sort through a whole garage of old parts and they'll teach you how to basically build a bicycle from the scraps."

VOA: special.2011.05.20

Someone would bring the meat. Someone would bring the dressing. And we would all sort of combine the efforts to have a family Thanksgiving dinner and bring out the good china for that particular event.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

"I've always been a devotee of slapstick, and it sort of emphasizes sometimes jokes and you know I think everybody really deep inside would sometime or another would like to throw a pie or get hit with a pie."

VOA: special.2010.10.17

"They announced a list of companies that sort of have a connection or affiliation with the family of the former president.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

And,it would be a shame to lose that sort of sense of the past, that sort of connectivity with the past.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Not exactly. When we taste human blood, a sort of frenzy begins, and it's almost impossible to stop.

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