Sentence examples for a sortie from from inspiring English sources

The title of that movie, meaning drunk, also indicated the spiritual direction taken in any road movie: not forwards, or backwards, or even inwards, but sideways, a physical displacement, a geographical dislodging, a sortie from the comfort zone to a place where new perspectives may allow new insights – or perhaps not.

During the Oriskany action, the besieged Americans staged a sortie from Fort Stanwix and raided the nearly empty Indian camp.

The result of the battle remains ambiguous because the apparent Loyalist victory was significantly affected by a sortie from Fort Stanwix in which the Loyalist camps were sacked, spoiling morale among the allied Indians.

In a single sortie from USS Bonhomme Richard, a wave of Harriers inflicted heavy damage on a Republican Guard tank battalion in advance of a major ground assault on Al Kut.

Edward Beckett (now at the helm of the Beckett Estate) makes a rare sortie from semi-retirement to Enniskillen to contribute just one of the many musical events – Ravel's Les Chansons Madécasses – that form the Happy Days Enniskillen Beckett festival that opened on 31 July.

Edward Beckett (now at the helm of the Beckett Estate) makes a rare sortie from semi-retirement to Enniskillen to contribute just one of the many musical events – Ravel's Les Chansons Madécasses – that form the Happy Days Enniskillen Beckett festival that opened on 31 July.

Sebastien Bassong charges forward on a kamikaze sortie from centre-back, gives the ball away, and is very lucky that the ref blows for a foul.

However, a British sortie from the fort forced Brown's men to retreat; Hazen ended up in British hands.

Arnold, after hearing of a planned sortie from the city, decided on November 19 to withdraw to Pointe-aux-Trembles to wait for Montgomery, who had recently captured Montreal.

After hearing rumors of a planned sortie from the city, Arnold decided on November 19 to withdraw to Pointe-aux-Trembles to wait for Montgomery, who had recently captured Montreal.

The squadron also revisited Faluja to prevent an Egyptian sortie from the beleaguered pocket, and on New Year's Day 1949 flew a failed attempt to bomb an Egyptian Navy flotilla which had shelled Tel Aviv.