Sentence examples for sortie from from inspiring English sources

At their best, these works, for example "Sortie from Gibraltar" (1789; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), carry great conviction, even if they tend to be somewhat theatrical.

Footprints that look like a strange tank has rolled across the muddy track are in fact from a living tank – a sticky pug of a hippo on a night-grazing sortie from the river.

The English have a somewhat chequered history abroad, but before Christmas we returned from the Festival of Girona in Catalonia, giving our account of one particularly famous sortie from Blighty.

It's a respectable start: ahead of Noah, Darren Aronofsky's own biblical sortie from March this year, in some places (Spain, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines); behind it in others (Mexico, South Korea, Argentina, Australia).

Defenders of the Alcazar celebrated the end of their 70-day ordeal by attacking the rear of hastily retreating Reds in their last sortie from the virtually ruined old citadel.

Edward Beckett (now at the helm of the Beckett Estate) makes a rare sortie from semi-retirement to Enniskillen to contribute just one of the many musical events – Ravel's Les Chansons Madécasses – that form the Happy Days Enniskillen Beckett festival that opened on 31 July.

As the fleet flagship, Baden was to have taken part in a final fleet action days before the Armistice, an operation which envisioned the bulk of the High Seas Fleet sortieing from their base in Wilhelmshaven to engage the British Grand Fleet.

It was this augmented fleet which Scheer now sought to ensnare and destroy before the remainder of the Grand Fleet could sortie south from Scapa to its rescue.

Strigul et al. ([2008]) simulated forest stand development combining ideas from SORTIE ([Pacala et al. 1993]) and from the canopy tessellation methods of Mitchell ([1969], [1975]), but allowing for crown displacements as in [Umeki (1995]).

On each night this week, warplanes from the Enterprise have flown about 70 sorties, a sortie being a single flight by a single plane.

In its forecourt, aircraft that have flown their last sortie jut skyward from pedestals.