sortie 的 2 个定义
- a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- a body of troops involved in such a movement.
- the flying of an airplane on a combat mission.
sor·tied, sor·tie·ing.
- to go on a sortie; sally forth.
sortie 近义词
armed attack
更多sortie例句
- That’s appropriate, as its agents here are engaged in a kind of war, flying constant sorties against enemy forces that could spread illness across these subtropical islands if left unchecked.
- My grandfather, his father, was a WW1 ace and was on the sortie which downed the Red Baron.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Abercromby, who had led the only serious sortie from Yorktown, chewed his sword in impotent rage.
- Many ladies do not like to display their "sortie du soire" before a crowded room, and you will be keeping their escort waiting.
- By September the enemy had opened their trenches round Perpignan, and Prignon was entrusted with a night sortie.
- Bonaparte attacked Valetta, in Malta, and in a sortie the Maltese lost the standard of their order.
- But the garrison made a sortie, seized the towers, destroyed them, and killed or captured the soldiers who manned them.
- In a sortie Bohemond the crafty and brave was wounded; Tancred's and Godfrey's valor ended in repulse.