Sentence examples for sortie through from inspiring English sources

They took a quick sortie through Dorothy Perkins after that.

What astonishes me most, though, is how a dangerous, exhausting three-day sortie through enemy territory, in which a village is pounded with 2,000lb bombs, jets are called in from Kandahar, and the unit has a narrow and seemingly lucky escape, is deemed a "success" because "two Taliban were killed".

The Tegetthoffs attempted to sortie through the Otranto Barrage with the support of lighter ships in 1918, but failed after Szent István was sunk.

The British Admiralty was made aware of the German sortie through the interception of German wireless signals, and deployed the Grand Fleet at 15 50.

Within the defensive surroundings of White Wolf, Essen started to plan a sortie through the blockade to Vladivostok or a rendezvous with the Second Pacific Squadron, at that time coaling at Madagascar.

Breathing "full-on" oxygen all through the sortie was uncomfortable – and no remedy against anoxia after two or three hours, when a deadly sense of well-being would take hold and his vision grow disturbed.

"The investigation showed that our tail rotor had been banging metal on metal, and drilling a hole through the tail rotor gradually, so we were glad we knocked that sortie on the head when we did".

This first sortie ended badly.

Friday's sortie was a preliminary meeting.

Our first sortie was to Scotland.

The first sortie carried 80 plants.