Sentence examples for was a sortie from inspiring English sources

A star for Albion Rovers, Meadowbank Thistle, Shrewsbury Town and Hamilton Academical, "Vodka" Vic is best remembered for overturning Shrews team-mate John McGinlay's car one morning, en route to buying a paper, it was claimed initially, although he later admitted it was a sortie for booze.

When the Balkan Wars broke out in October 1912, these airplanes performed a number of reconnaissance and bombing missions; the most notable was a sortie against the Ottoman fleet anchorage in the Dardanelles, where First Lieutenant Michael Moutoussis and Ensign Aristeidis Moraitinis spotted the Ottoman fleet and dropped four bombs.

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.

After an early wake-up call followed by a half-hour of diving in open ocean, our only company is a sortie of snorkelers getting knocked around by waves at the surface.

Indefatigables first mission was a brief sortie on 1 July 1944 to provide air cover for the ocean liner that was ferrying American troops to Britain.

The first operation in which she participated was an uneventful sortie by the fleet into the North Sea on 29 30 March.

Among his tasks was a late night sortie to Tesco to pick up gold medal winner Kirani James's favourite brand of shower gel.

High point of the night was a highly choreographed sortie out into the crowd on which she walked 200 metres while being mobbed in the politest way I have ever witnessed.

Having been promoted to acting flight lieutenant, he was on a sortie to attack Düsseldorf in December 1944 when he lost one of his engines.

It's a rare sortie into the down and dirty for this singer-songwriter who augments her subtle acoustica with loops, keyboards and xylophones, and who prefers allusion and allegory to anything, well, real.

Friday's sortie was a preliminary meeting.