Sentence examples for night sortie from inspiring English sources

Among his tasks was a late night sortie to Tesco to pick up gold medal winner Kirani James's favourite brand of shower gel.

The Muslims tried to break out in a night sortie, but Theodotus was expecting such a move and routed them in an ambush.

Inspired by the patriotism and suffering of the citizens of Tabriz, where he had been teaching English, the handsome young Nebraskan led a group of his students on a midnight sortie against the reactionary forces of the Shah's elite Cossack brigades.

On the afternoon of November 21 the Patriots held a war council, in which they decided to sortie that night.

But the company truly earned that accolade on Wednesday night with its first sortie into pure 19th-century classicism.

In these piquets would be posted by day to prevent any sudden sortie; by night the same stations were held by sentries and strong garrisons.

The Admiralty ordered the Grand Fleet, totalling some 28 dreadnoughts and 9 battlecruisers, to sortie the night before to cut off and destroy the High Seas Fleet.

As the helicopter sortie returned at dusk last night, long volleys of machine gun fire echoed around the lagoon city.

These days a plane with "smart" bombs can blast several targets in a single sortie, day or night, in good weather or bad.

High point of the night was a highly choreographed sortie out into the crowd on which she walked 200 metres while being mobbed in the politest way I have ever witnessed.

He ordered another great sortie for that night.