(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.
Sortie
Definition:
(n.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.
Example Sentences:
(1) The alliance said it conducted 66 strike sorties on Tuesday, with many of them in daylight hours.
(2) All 18 accidents occurred during single crewmember sorties, for an average rate of 2.1 per million single-seat flying hours (pmfh).
(3) You’ve already seen the first sorties: since the separation of powers is the longest-standing of American ideas, the tweeted hostility to a “so-called judge” crosses a line only Richard Nixon ever flirted with.
(4) The Nato secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said 300 sorties since Saturday had destroyed 49 tanks, nine armoured personnel carriers, three anti-aircraft guns and four large ammunition bunkers.
(5) 2.09pm BST 65 min: Gibbs has looked a great threat whenever he's made a sortie up front.
(6) Moscow has doubled the number of sorties being flown in Syria, with the introduction of 25 long-range bombers flying from Russia.
(7) 5.14am BST Tony Abbott's opening sortie is on the carbon tax going up.
(8) Preference was estimated by the predominate direction of sorties during random alternation of the sound sources.
(9) Dry bulb temperature was measured at six sites throughout seven sorties in F4E aircraft in a study of vertical and lateral cockpit temperature gradients designed to determine the validity of single-point measurements.
(10) And then there were his sorties into international diplomacy, namely suggesting that Russia is a militaristic one-party state with a reputation for repressive police tactics.
(11) Nato said its aircraft had conducted 154 sorties over Libya on Sunday, including 70 "strike sorties", which it defines as missions to identify and engage targets, but which do not necessarily involve weapons being fired.
(12) But Turnbull couldn’t escape domestic political controversy on the opening day of his 10-day sortie.
(13) There was speculation that yesterday's attacks could be linked to Norway's military involvement in Nato operations in Afghanistan, where it has 500 soldiers, or Libya, where Norwegian jet fighters are flying sorties.
(14) After North Korea last tested a nuclear device in 2013, Washington sent a pair of nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers on a sortie over South Korea in a show of force.
(15) Models capable of predicting cockpit thermal stress and aircrew thermal strain given ambient temperature and sortie time have been constructed.
(16) The effectiveness of head or neck cooling in reducing head sweating and increasing subject comfort when used in conjunction with a liquid-conditioned vest during simulated sorties in the European Fighter Aircraft was investigated.
(17) 8.02pm BST 1 min: Crystal Palace attempt an early sortie into Liverpool territory with a foray up the left touchline.
(18) The French have come in hard and fast, with fighter jets flying sorties from southern France over Algerian airspace, helicopters coming in from bases in Burkina Faso , and special forces and Legionnaires from Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, Burkina, and France.
(19) The raising of the threat level followed a decision by the Canadian government to take part in the allied air campaign against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and deployed two warplanes and a refueller aircraft to flight sorties from Kuwait.
(20) This looming sortie into northern Iraq is different from the catastrophic adventurism of the 2003 invasion.