sortie
noun
, sȯr-ˈtē\
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Synonyms
excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, ramble, sally, sashay, spin
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Landry flew thirty sorties in a B-17 bomber and survived a crash landing. — Rich Cohen, Harper's magazine, "The Wood Chipper," 19 Aug. 2019 Boris thought about correcting Arkan, pointing out that the Brits were flying very few sorties over Serbia at the moment and that the vast majority, if not all, of the bombing was being done by the Americans. — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, "Sorry, terribly sorry, but the Brits will survive Brexit and Boris Johnson," 10 July 2019 Taiwan's fighter pilots are trained to land on freeways between sorties in case all of the island's airports have been occupied or destroyed by an invasion. — Ben Westcott, CNN, "A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a bloody, logistical nightmare," 23 June 2019 But from the ground, the destruction is clear and unforgiving: A 33-foot wide, 13-foot gouge into the earth that began in the 1940s with an Allied sortie and ended Sunday morning in a massive blast in a barley field in central Germany. — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, "Massive blast leaves crater in German barley field," 25 June 2019 The Marines sent just six of them on their first deployment to the Middle East, and over several months only managed to fly, on average, one combat sortie per plane every three days. — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, "The Military-Industrial Virus," 10 June 2019 Allied air forces flew more than 9000 sorties Wednesday, bombing, and strafing the enemy from the Normandy beachheads to 100 miles inside of France. — Houston Chronicle, "FIRST INVASION GOAL REACHED," 9 June 2019 Once rare and exotic, sorties like this have become routine in just two years’ time. — Christopher Mims, WSJ, "Your Drone-Delivered Coffee Is (Almost) Here," 30 Mar. 2019 Over a course of 145 sorties, C-5s flew a total of 21,600,000 pounds of supplies, including tanks and helicopters, into the beleaguered country. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Why the C-5 Galaxy Is Such a Badass Plane," 18 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sortie.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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