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sortie
[ sawr-tee ]
noun
- a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- a body of troops involved in such a movement.
- the flying of an airplane on a combat mission.
verb (used without object)
- to go on a sortie; sally forth.
sortie
/ ˈsɔːtɪ /
noun
- (of troops, etc) the act of emerging from a contained or besieged position
- the troops doing this
- an operational flight made by one aircraft
- a short or relatively short return trip
verb
- intr to make a sortie
Word History and Origins
Origin of sortie1
Word History and Origins
Origin of sortie1
Example Sentences
Beijing is already sending air and naval sorties close to Taiwan territory with alarming frequency.
That’s appropriate, as its agents here are engaged in a kind of war, flying constant sorties against enemy forces that could spread illness across these subtropical islands if left unchecked.
My grandfather, his father, was a WW1 ace and was on the sortie which downed the Red Baron.
Lieutenant-Colonel Abercromby, who had led the only serious sortie from Yorktown, chewed his sword in impotent rage.
Many ladies do not like to display their "sortie du soire" before a crowded room, and you will be keeping their escort waiting.
By September the enemy had opened their trenches round Perpignan, and Prignon was entrusted with a night sortie.
Bonaparte attacked Valetta, in Malta, and in a sortie the Maltese lost the standard of their order.
But the garrison made a sortie, seized the towers, destroyed them, and killed or captured the soldiers who manned them.
In a sortie Bohemond the crafty and brave was wounded; Tancred's and Godfrey's valor ended in repulse.
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