sortie

“The near-zero sortie counts seen on some days since February should be viewed as an extreme manifestation of a longer-term trend, rather than a sudden development,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 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 RAF confirmed "a pylon" had detached itself from the RAF Coningsby-based Typhoon jet in Haisthorpe, near Bridlington, during a sortie on 18 January.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

“I forbid you to make a sortie today.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

"Ten thousand sorties, 23,000 combat flight hours, almost 4,000 combat sorties," he said, later announcing the award of a presidential unit citation to the strike group for "extraordinary heroism against enemy forces."

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The two men often kept in touch about their sorties, but not this time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Helicopters piloted by emergency responders flew sorties to deliver water in a bid to douse the fires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Made at secret locations across Ukraine by Bavovna, the Perun Max can carry "three projectiles, drop them on targets, return, reload and take off again," making up to 30 sorties a night, he said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

Rob announced that the first of these acclimatization sorties would occur on April 13—a one-day round-trip to Camp One, perched on the uppermost brow of the Khumbu Icefall, a vertical half mile above.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

The ROK Air Force then sortied its fighters, including about 80 fifth-generation F-35As.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

We had a fraternity office on campus from which we occasionally sortied out to class or, just as often, to the student lounge, where we tried to master the mambo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Five weeks ago, in the midst of the rioting that gripped the quiet city of Masan during Korea's presidential elections, a 16-year-old student named Kim Chu Yul sortied out into Masan's streets and never returned.

From Time Magazine Archive

With an eye on relaxation as well as royalties, some well-established novelists and poets have sortied from their usual literary habitat and invaded the children's book field with happy results.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let the man who was a hero—Daulac; Brock; the twelve who sortied at Lacolle Mill; our deathless three hundred of Chateauguay,—never to be forgotten.

From The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall