Sentence examples for sortie and from inspiring English sources

They wheeled and re-formed for another sortie, and another, and another.

Jackson's staff continued to oversee each sortie, and the spraying greatly diminished.

A Dept. of Amplification on Geoffrey Hellman's June 11 piece, "A Schiff Sortie and a Warburg Wallow".

Back in Nairobi from one grueling sortie, and repairing to a favorite nightspot, the author enters "the red hell of a thousand girls".

Twice he had hurtled off his line to snuff out attacks before the 15th minute when he mistimed a further sortie and was punished.

The New Yorker, October 29 , 1955P. 117 A Dept. of Amplification on Geoffrey Hellman's June 11 piece, "A Schiff Sortie and a Warburg Wallow".

The cavalry attacked the flank of the Byzantine sortie force and repulsed the sally.

The close proximity of forward bases allowed for a far greater sortie rate and reduced fuel consumption.

Donald Cammell's Wild Side is the posthumous "director's cut" of Cammell's fourth and last work, and it is one of the most extraordinary, bizarre and uproarious films that you can see this year - a dreamlike sortie into eroticism and crime and neurosis which results in a black comedy pulp noir.

Victoria's Missa Pro Victoria and "Regina Coeli"; Guerrero's "Maria Magdalena"; Mulet's Carillon Sortie; New York Cornet and Sackbut Ensemble; David Shuler, music director and organist.

Although this angered some of the townspeople to the point where the militia requested permission to make a sortie, Leyba refused, and the attackers eventually withdrew and headed north, destroying crops, livestock, and buildings as they went.