"The sort of foundation product that we serve is lefse, this Norwegian potato flatbread, and I grew up eating that every year at Christmastime.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

It was the sort of performance that you do not see very often.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

"I quite often get an intense feeling of life and death, of the sort of achievements and failures of the people."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"Earlier this year, the sort of strident sort of criticism that you heard coming out of the White House certainly indicated that there was displeasure with the disfunction of the government in Kabul,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

What I really love about New Moon is you see this girl really build herself back up and by the time she makes the sort of rash decision to spend eternity with a vampire, you believe her.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

"We also looked at the part of the brain called the hippocampus which is very important for forming the sort of memories we make everyday,you know, when you have to remember a pin number or you have to remember how to get somewhere, and the hippocampus, if it's a good size that means you are less likely to develop Alzheimer's,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

"There's this incredible leap of faith, on the part of the singer, where you're just hoping,sort of,beyond hope, that somehow this works,right?

VOA: special.2011.05.09

Yet he says this message is often more scary for people than the idea that leprosy is some sort of spiritual punishment.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

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

"I had never done that sort of work, and it was not the right job for me.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

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

And sort of the same ideas have been confirmed over and over again.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Well,sort of.Hanukkah -- the Jewish Festival of Lights -- really is eight days.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

There's either the scrap industry where they're shredding cars and shredding tires and there's the refurbished PC market and we're sort of sit right in between both of those."

VOA: special.2010.11.01