Sentence examples for a sortie of from inspiring English sources

After an early wake-up call followed by a half-hour of diving in open ocean, our only company is a sortie of snorkelers getting knocked around by waves at the surface.

Rather, assisted by a sortie of good wizards, he flees his "Muggle" (read: "suburban") family home to hide once again in the Weasley family's funky bucolic house -- which of course was visibly set ablaze by Voldemort's Death Eaters (read: "non-vegetarians") in the previous film (though not in the previous book), only now, voilà, there it is apparently unscathed, very much sans explanation.

By 1950, he was ready for a sortie to the old mountains of Europe, in the course of which he and his companions bagged many of the major summits of the Stubai Alps and the Bernese Oberland.

With the aid of a fresh sortie of Zayas's troops from Cádiz, and reinforced by a brigade of the Prince of Anglona's division, the Spanish drove Villatte's force across the Almanza Creek.

The poem begins by describing an unsettling sortie of fighter jets, a common occurrence in America these days.

While she was operational the Allies had to keep a powerful force of warships with the British Home Fleet to guard against the possibility of a sortie against the Arctic convoys, and capital ships accompanied most convoys part of the way to the Soviet Union.

GREAT FLEET OFF ON TOUR TOMORROW; Officers Announce Departure From Hawaii for Australia Will Be in Nature of a "Sortie". THEORETICAL MINES IN PATH These Must Be Brushed Away With Help of Reconnoitring Craft and Their Tenders.

Archives|GREAT FLEET OFF ON TOUR TOMORROW; Officers Announce Departure From Hawaii for Australia Will Be in Nature of a "Sortie". THEORETICAL MINES IN PATH These Must Be Brushed Away With Help of Reconnoitring Craft and Their Tenders.

Assigned to the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean in early 1942, Formidable covered the invasion of Diego Suarez in Vichy Madagascar in mid-1942 againsthehe possibility of a sortie by the Japanese into the Indian Ocean.

Next, a level, sunken space behind the glacis, the covered way, was provided so that defenders could assemble for a sortie under cover and out of sight of the attackers.

At times, he is the only one privy to the details of a sortie, because he designs them to suit the martyr he has handpicked.