Sentence examples for sortie of the from inspiring English sources
This did not mean that Pathfinders had any more experience; four of 97 Squadron's crews flying that night were on their first sortie of the war.
Sitting in the flight deck on Monday was David Burns, the chief test pilot, who flew the one, short, virtually unrecorded sortie of the prototype Airlander, conducted in secret at a US military facility in New Jersey in 2012.
Moments later Kabba's first sortie of the half, which saw the combination of his pace and physical power take him past Stephen Foster, ended similarly with no team-mate on hand to finish his spadework.
Crombie piloted his final sortie of the war from Air Headquarters, Bengal on 7 July 1943.
made the first sortie of the flotilla on 9 April, and UB-10 departed on her first patrol soon after.
UB-4 made the first sortie of the flotilla on 9 April, and UB-5 departed on her first patrol soon after.
With the sortie of a majority of the remaining ships in the Imperial Japanese Navy spotted by American submarines, Washington, along with six other battleships, four heavy cruisers and fourteen destroyers covered the aircraft carriers of TF 58; on the 19th, with the attack of many aircraft, the Battle of the Philippine Sea began.
However, on 23 April, Marseille himself was shot down during his third sortie of that day by Sous-Lieutenant James Denis, a Free French pilot with No. 73 Squadron RAF (8.5 victories), flying a Hawker Hurricane.
She was repaired at Hull and encountered a German mine-laying sortie on the evening of 5/6 June off Lowestoft when in company with the destroyer.
I'm not sure if it's the camera angle or not, but the pitch looks massive. 2 min: Antonio Valencia embarks on the first sortie of note, galloping down the right wing, before sending the ball inside to Fabio.
The bears appeared to grasp some control of the tape last week, as stock prices fluttered with some weakness in the wake of the first sortie of earnings reports that have offered little in the way of a mandate for higher prices.
