sorties's Usage Examples:

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.

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

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.

Occasional sorties to higher speeds were, however, painless enough.

Small sorties, partial attacks' and duels between the Japanese guns and the generally more powerful ordnance of the fortress continued.

The battle closed with the celebrated stand of Reginald of Boulogne, a revolted vassal of King Philip, who formed a ring of seven hundred Brabancon pikemen, and not only defied every attack of the French cavalry, but himself made repeated charges or sorties with his small force of knights.

The hostile ravens carried out 18 combat air sorties from Saudi airspace and 14 combat air sorties from Kuwaiti airspace.

flying offensive sorties with a full range of external weapons.

Synonyms:

sally, action, military action,

Antonyms:

source, sink, activation,