sally

The Uber initiative is the latest sally in a long war pitting plaintiffs and their lawyers against businesses, with legal fees as the battleground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

“Plainclothes agents have been embedded in transport vans, sally ports, processing areas, and detention cells to gather important tactical intelligence and or information,” a document on Benchwarmer reads.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

As with the adoption of Casual Fridays, the first sally in the contemporary battle for comfort, there remains confusion as to what exactly constitutes acceptable office attire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

The tiny river fly, known as scarce yellow sally, was thought to have died out a few decades ago.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023

They reached the sally port in the north wall without meeting anyone else.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

She and her brood live high up in the trees, jumping from branch to branch and occasionally making exploratory sallies on the ground.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

Edith, for example, sallies forth like Eleanor Lavish, the assertive romance writer portrayed by Judi Dench in the film version of “A Room With a View.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022

They’re still getting to know one another—making conversational sallies, seeking to befriend or impress or charm.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019

Here and there decisive sallies rattled the partisans of one side or another, but most battles seemed destined to come to, uh, a stalemate.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2018

Maybe that’s why Jaimito went along with these dangerous sallies.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

I sallied forth, seeking a companion to go with me to see Metallica at a 6th Street club.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

Yet despite a government determined to constrain their ambition and advancement, they sallied forward to become a lawyer and educator, respectively.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2022

One of these counter-offensives came in the form of an appearance from billionaire Howard Schultz, Starbucks' former chairman, who sallied over to Buffalo to vaguely dissuade pro-union workers from unionizing.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021

The original movie succeeded in wasting Emmanuelle Béart and Kristin Scott Thomas, and it wasn’t really until Ferguson sallied into film No. 5, toting an assassin’s rifle, that progress began to be made.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2018

The daisy over his shoulder, he sallied back toward his wife, very pleased with himself.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

All that sallying takes her down some unexpected byways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Finally, some first-timers are valiantly sallying forth — the kind of debuts that’ll be more and more rare as times only get tougher for the restaurant industry under COVID-19.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2020

But sallying forth without any of them is a recipe for misery.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 2016

For both sides the primary task of this weekend then is not avoiding sallying forth on to the fiscal slope, but making sure their bindings are tight as they do so.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2012

She thus formed a habit of sallying forth alone in the evening.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.