sortie

Example Sentences

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In the air assault on Iran that began Saturday, American fighter pilots are flying sortie after sortie alongside refueling tankers, reconnaissance planes, bombers, drones and other U.S. aircraft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Turk’s bad back makes it a brief sortie, but the attempt confirms that their friendship remains fundamentally intact.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026

The jet first landed on 14 June at Thiruvananthapuram airport in the southern state of Kerala where it was diverted after it ran into bad weather during a sortie in the Indian Ocean.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025

But this time the Russian plane wasn’t on a bombing sortie.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024

All Lancelot’s muscles made an empathic sortie towards the feeling of his own armour, which he had not seen since he left Camelot.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White