Sentence examples for a sortie with from inspiring English sources

The Mitylenians made a sortie with all their forces against the Athenian camp; and a battle ensued, in which they gained some slight advantage, but retired notwithstanding, not feeling sufficient confidence in themselves to spend the night upon the field.

I discovered the colour of adrenaline during a sortie with a Royal Navy helicopter crew when we were locked on by a surface-to-air missile as we flew close to the coast of Kuwait.

"The Russians usually put out a sortie with an Akula or an Akula II around Christmas … It normally stops off Scotland, and then through the Bay of Biscay and out over the Atlantic.

At dawn on 30 August, Baker took off on a sortie with Lieutenants Roy King and Oscar Ramsay.

Later that month, he took off on a similar sortie with two other aircraft.

"I just thought, 'Is this never going to stop?' " Doster, 26, was flying a training sortie with Maj.

Bremse and her sister ended the month with a fleet sortie with the rest of the battle fleet on 22 24 April.

Owain, perhaps desperate and looking for a glorious defeat to end his revolt, led a last-gasp sortie with his remaining, most-trusted soldiers.

During late February 1944, Scherf took part in a sortie over Axis occupied territory with Squadron Leader Howie Clevelend; Scherf flew the leading aircraft of the two.

To cover the landings of these troops and provide support for the operation to retake Henderson Field from Allied forces, Yamamoto directed Chuichi Nagumo to sortie with a carrier force from Truk on 21 August and head towards the southern Solomon Islands.

It's a sortie in Yahoo's Web 2.0 offensive, and – with investors watching closely – it's a battle the company can't afford to lose.