Sentence examples for for a sortie from inspiring English sources

Ahead of the storm, the commander of United States Fleet Forces ordered all Navy ships in the Hampton Roads area to prepare for a sortie as Hurricane Sandy traveled up the East Coast.

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.

Happy Moscow, written in the early 1930s but only published for the first time in 1991, like The Foundation Pit, eschews linear narrative development for a sortie towards greater poetic truth.

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.

After Bismarck joined the fleet, plans were drawn up for a sortie into the North Atlantic.

These included steaming out of the fjord and the appearance of preparations for a sortie into the North Sea.

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.

This made the threat of a sortie against the British Fleet a serious problem.

A star for Albion Rovers, Meadowbank Thistle, Shrewsbury Town and Hamilton Academical, "Vodka" Vic is best remembered for overturning Shrews team-mate John McGinlay's car one morning, en route to buying a paper, it was claimed initially, although he later admitted it was a sortie for booze.

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.