sortie

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

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026

Air-superiority missions, for instance, would require them to sortie and remain “on station” in Taiwan’s vicinity for a time before returning, which isn’t viable from Guam, Heginbotham said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

The F-35B 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. 21, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

“My pilot had a stupid navigator and I had a mindless pilot.... By her fifth sortie, Dina felt very tired and kept falling asleep.”

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

B-1 bombers at the base, which has been used by the U.S. to fly “defensive” sorties in the Middle East conflict, were a likely target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Japanese jets scrambled 595 times in the year to March 31, 2026, including 366 sorties against Chinese aircraft and 214 for Russian planes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

Analysts from defence intelligence firm Janes offered a similar assessment, as well as saying there had been a "general increase in US intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance sorties" since February.

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

Above all, his sorties reinforced his belief that the Wooded Island, despite the Japanese temple, should be made as wild as possible.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

She donned trousers, overcoat, slouch felt hat, a false-diamond stickpin and a false black mustache, and sortied into Mexican society.

From Time Magazine Archive

While his classmates flew long, bitterly cold patrols at the front that winter, young Stalin sortied into Moscow.

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

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