Sentence examples for major sortie from inspiring English sources
When the family arrived at Berlin's Zoo Station, the city was in flames following a major sortie by Allied bombers.
"He can make you do anything he wants". What started as a brief training sortie turned into a major effort in which the Armenia Eye Care Project provided two digital retinal cameras, each worth as much as $100,000, to the Malayan Ophthalmic Center in Yerevan.
The ship took part in all of the major fleet actions, though only one of them ended in combat the sortie on 31 May that resulted in the Battle of Jutland.
From Labor's back-of-the envelope northern Australia sortie yesterday; to 'me too' from the Coaliton on Gonski; to the major party antics on the GST - it's all serious sub-optimal stuff.
This first sortie ended badly.
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.
Friday's sortie was a preliminary meeting.
Our first sortie was to Scotland.
The first sortie carried 80 plants.
"They're returning from a training sortie," insists Allfrey.
Fiske flew his first operational sortie on 27 July 1940.
