Sentence examples for a sortie from the 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.
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.
Footprints that look like a strange tank has rolled across the muddy track are in fact from a living tank – a sticky pug of a hippo on a night-grazing sortie from the river.
Defenders of the Alcazar celebrated the end of their 70-day ordeal by attacking the rear of hastily retreating Reds in their last sortie from the virtually ruined old citadel.
They were the dominant fighters in this action, and some suffered due to the loss of their personal belongings taken during the American sortie from the fort.
Sturdee's ships did not sortie from the harbor until 9 50, but they could see the retreating German ships on the southwest horizon.
