Sentence examples for One sortie from inspiring English sources
And yet the 100,000 close-air-support sorties flown between 2011 and 2015 -- that's more than one sortie per Taliban fighter -- did not, alas, yield "some version of victory".
The helicopter was still firing – how many bullets can it carry on one sortie, I wondered?
They can rapidly scan and capture a huge area of interest in just one sortie – in this case areas in need of flood relief work.
On one sortie, in the rush to stop Serbs from killing ethnic Albanians, Commander McDowell dropped a 1,000-pound 1,000-pounded bomb at the mouth of a tunnel that five trucks carrying Serbian soldiers had just entered.
On 12 July 1941, he shot down 7 Soviet aircraft in one sortie.
At one sortie per minute, those rats are dead in an afternoon.
Back in Nairobi from one grueling sortie, and repairing to a favorite nightspot, the author enters "the red hell of a thousand girls".
Islanders say one Turkish sortie was bluffed out of landing when the islanders placed red fezzes, then worn by Greeks as well as Turks, on stiff-stemmed asphodel plants, to look like crouching soldiery.
An alarmingly frayed example from one Bonneville sortie was on display during the discussion.
Once he's taken on he shows again and again that he has NO IDEA of samurai discipline - falls asleep on his watch, deserts his post to go off on a one-man sortie to capture a gun..
The English have a somewhat chequered history abroad, but before Christmas we returned from the Festival of Girona in Catalonia, giving our account of one particularly famous sortie from Blighty.
