sortie's Usage Examples:

One other sortie towards Noisseville followed on the 7th, the alleged reason for which was the hope of obtaining provisions in the neighbouring villages.

combat air sorties between October 16 and 23.

US Defense Secretary and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff briefing 2 Jan 02 RAF tanker, reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft flew operational sorties.

From these advanced positions the Turks had delivered the first sorties above mentioned and to them they had retired under the pressure of the II.

Throughout the month the garrison made repeated sorties, and the Germans were on several occasions forced by the long range fire of the fortress to evacuate villages which they had taken.

Under their direction steady advance was made on the side which Bonaparte saw to be all important; a sortie of part of the British, Spanish and Neapolitan forces on the 30th of November was beaten back with loss, General O'Hara, their commander, being severely wounded and taken prisoner.

A still more formidable sortie on the 5th of November was with difficulty repulsed at Inkerman.

The RAF made 110 sorties by Spitfires ' 15 sorties by Hurricanes during the day ' shot down 15 German aircraft.

"In September 1825 Ibrahim, at the order of the sultan, had joined Reshid before the town; piecemeal the outlying forts and defences now fell, until the garrison, reduced by starvation and disease, determined to hazard all on a final sortie.

To facilitate sorties in great force he did away with a counterscarp wall, providing instead a long gentle slope from the bottom of the ditch to the crest of the glacis.

operational sorties and lost 24 aircraft.

According to Josephus, Titus decided to spare the Temple, but - whether this was so or not - on the 10th of August it was fired by a soldier after a sortie of the Jews had been repelled.

Synonyms:

flying, flight,

Antonyms:

source, sink, activation,