Sentence examples for a long sortie from inspiring English sources

A Day's Work Commander McDowell's workday began at 4 30 a.m., when he woke in a small stateroom and readied for a long sortie.

A sortie down the right comes to nothing, then Benteke battles for a long ball down the inside left, only to bundle out for a goal kick.

A long, long while.

On each night this week, warplanes from the Enterprise have flown about 70 sorties, a sortie being a single flight by a single plane.

For what appears to be an entire sortie, a Canadian warplane broadcast its flight location while flying over so-called Islamic State (IS) controlled territory.

Seol Ki-hyeon is looking a bit spritely and makes a sortie into Turkey's box but he has to slide into a weak shot.

On October 10, during a sortie against a new Russian attack, Kościuszko was wounded and captured at Maciejowice.

WASHINGTON — The American military on Thursday carried out a rare long-range mission over the Korean Peninsula, sending two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers on a practice sortie over South Korea, underscoring Washington's commitment to defend its ally amid rising tensions with North Korea.

The plane, based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, was on a routine training sortie, said an RAF spokesman.

In many ways I view this as no different from bombers flying a sortie against an American target.

76 min: On a rare Cluj sortie, Culio curls a free-kick into the box but Terry heads comfortably clear.