Sentence examples for sortie in from inspiring English sources
Just for the record, this is the wording of the Bandt/McGowan procedural sortie, in full.
The tactic dated from an experimental Allied sortie in World War I.
Pilote de guerre (1942; Flight to Arras) is a personal reminiscence of a reconnaissance sortie in May 1940 accomplished in a spirit of sacrifice against desperate odds.
They can rapidly scan and capture a huge area of interest in just one sortie – in this case areas in need of flood relief work.
It's a sortie in Yahoo's Web 2.0 offensive, and – with investors watching closely – it's a battle the company can't afford to lose.
Today, they speak about each other with the mild passive-aggression of two people who have got what they want after a tiring sortie in divorce court.
The frontal attack by the 2012 Republican presidential nominee marked the most prominent sortie yet in an anti-insurgency effort building in desperate intensity.
The changes brought some early improvement, an Albrighton sortie resulting in Demarai Gray's half‑volley over the crossbar, but it quickly proved illusory.
This sortie resulted in the Battle of the Yellow Sea.
This is still an extraordinary film - a military sortie into the past in which both we and Folman are embedded like traumatised reporters.
Okay, so Ed may have stopped short of claiming David Cameron drowned all those refugees with his own two hands – but he does claim the crux of this entire catastrophe can be traced directly back to the UK's military sortie into Libya back in 2011.
