(v. i.) To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.
(v.) A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.
(v.) A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie.
(v.) An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation.
(v.) A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.
(v.) Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.
Example Sentences:
(1) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(2) Leaving aside those who make difficult interviewees because they are difficult people, Sally Wainwright is probably the most difficult interviewee ever.
(3) The recent Channel 4 documentary "You're killing my son" told the story of Neon Roberts, a young boy whose treatment for a brain tumour was halted by his mother Sally, who remained convinced that radiotherapy would cause long-term harm and wanted to try alternative medical treatments.
(4) McAlpine was not named in the programme, but he was incorrectly linked to the claims on the internet, including by the speaker's wife, Sally Bercow, and the actor Alan Davies.
(5) Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said at the time however that e-cigarettes should only be used a means to help smokers quit.
(6) So off he toddled with his bindle-stick to play at running away, taking refuge at Sally's house.
(7) These days large theatres such as the Met in New York still use the recitative, but most productions tend to opt for the original dialogue, while a few, including Sally Potter's production for ENO in 2007, attempt to make do without either.
(8) One consequence of the Cummings memo was that the Labour peer Sally Morgan was not reappointed as chair of Ofsted’s board earlier this year, in an effort to force the pace of internal change.
(9) In a statement, the chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, said: "Severe winter flu and its complications can make people really ill and can kill, particularly those who are weak and frail which is why we already offer vaccinations to the most at risk groups.
(10) BBC1’s police thriller Happy Valley, starring Sarah Lancashire set in the Calder Valley and written by Sally Wainwright , will return for a third series after its second pulled 7 million viewers.
(11) One of the greatest Hollywood comedies, When Harry Met Sally , is still largely remembered as a "chick flick", when it was directed by Rob Reiner, the man who made Spinal Tap .
(12) Legally, Sally has every right to demand the money back – no one is entitled to keep money wrongly credited to their account.
(13) Sally Copley, Save the Children's head of UK policy, said the government needed a way to count children in extreme poverty.
(14) We must urgently change course to avert this potential crisis.” There has also been considerable advocacy by health officials, like Sally Davies, chief medical officer of the UK.
(15) The 14-member committee – whose only woman is Northampton MP Sally Keeble – stopped short of calling for quotas on female board representation in financial firms or for legal changes to boost the profile of women in the City.
(16) For example, Sue and Dorrie heard the voice mention "David", "pain in the back" and "passed quickly", and they both claim that Sally then repeated this word-for-word on stage, but in a more dramatic fashion.
(17) Sally Chisholm of the NHS Technology Adoption Centre blamed "budget silos", as narrow funding streams often present financial disincentives to changing the way of working.
(18) We need our Stephen Hawkings, but we also need Bob the Builder, firefighter Sally, Ned the nurse, soldier Salim and postal worker Patu.
(19) Sally sent us off on the Tiny Tim Trail, a sloping, twisting, turning snowshoe path that had me panting and out of breath in less than five minutes.
(20) Some might gently suggest it is best left empty, but Sally threw good judgment to the wind and took to internet dating.
Salvo
Definition:
(n.) An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
(n.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
(n.) A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
(2) Recently, we described a bovine aortic phosphatase which we called PCM-phosphatase (polycation modulable) because its activity in vitro can be modulated by polycations such as polylysine and histone-H1 (Di Salvo J, Gifford D, Kokkinakis A. Modulation of aortic protein phosphatase activity by polylysine.
(3) Look, these are opening salvos,” she told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme.
(4) Imagine the intimidating message it sends to smaller organisations in the provinces.” In line with his attacks on Soros, Orbán launched yet another anti-EU salvo this month in the form of a government-backed consultation exercise – provocatively titled “Let’s Stop Brussels!” – which asked voters to respond to what critics say are six deliberately loaded questions presented as binary choices.
(5) Lee's case is the "opening salvo in a campaign to remove progressive forces from the political scene," Gregory Elich, a member of the advisory board at the Korea Policy Institute, wrote just before the trial. "
(6) The minimal cycle length of salvos of TA was not modified by these parameters.
(7) "The squabbles will be bitter and vicious if the first salvoes in this war are anything to go by.
(8) The latter theory may be given weight by one ear-catching phrase from the prosecution's opening salvo: "No soldier, no matter what his experience or what unit he is attached to is above the law."
(9) But she saved a special salvo for Walker for failing to support student loan refinancing options – just as the rightwing stalwart showed signs of weakness in the first formal polls since the first Republican debate last week.
(10) Three major factors responsible for the repetitive activity could be disclosed: The heart rate preceding isolated ventricular extrasystoles was lower than that preceding the salvos of VT (p less than 0.01) the duration of which increased in a linear way with the sinus rate; Duration of the cycle preceding the last sinus beat before the bursts (long duration in 77% in group A and in 57% in group B).
(11) In patients of NYHA class 3 there was a higher spontaneous variability of VPCs, couplets and salvos than in patients of NYHA class 2, but the differences could not be ensured statistically.
(12) Klein dismissed the idea that acquiring Dos Santos provided the opening salvo in the upcoming battle for the area’s soccer fans.
(13) The arrival of the G1 is the latest salvo in a fight to control the software that will power the next generation of mobile phones, which can access the internet.
(14) Sanader was clearly upset by the allegations , which he said were the opening salvo in what he predicted would be a "very dirty" opposition campaign to discredit his government over the Pliva sale.
(15) The attack that killed Sardar Ahmad and his family was the opening salvo in a string of complex assaults, including on two election offices, battering Kabul with a level of violence normally spread out over weeks or months.
(16) Donald Trump takes bait and responds to Clinton’s DNC speech with Twitter salvo Pope Francis enters Auschwitz death camp in silence The pontiff walked slowly and alone beneath the infamous gates to Auschwitz-Birkenau emblazoned with the words Arbeit Macht Frei.
(17) The combination of sotalol with mexiletine or tocainide reduced ventricular ectopic beats by 79% and complex ventricular arrhythmias (pairs and salvoes) by 85%.
(18) It opened with the salvo: "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalisation of consumption simply haven't worked … The revision of US-inspired drug policies is urgent in the light of the rising levels of violence and corruption associated with narcotics."
(19) The coupling intervals between preceding normal sinus beats and beats which led to repetitive ventricular discharge were clustered between the shortest and the longest coupling intervals which did not lead to salvoes and tachycardia.
(20) With this latest salvo, I am afraid that we must consign Dawkins to this very same pile of the irrational and the dishonest.