It sort of makes sense the way he explains it, but I still don't really understand.

"Why—why, we sort of expected he'd be here!" says she.

‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. […]’

Anne Shaw tells Peter Plisner, "West Midlands Metro metamorphosis", page 32:
"It sort of transforms that location," says Shaw.
Pip Dunn, "'196s' giving commuters a smoother ride", page 55:
Messy trains are horrible, but you can sort of understand passengers leaving their sandwich wrappers and paper cups if there is nowhere to dispose of them.

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