sally

She and her brood live high up in the trees, jumping from branch to branch and occasionally making exploratory sallies on the ground.

The most comprehensive sally, of course, is the administration’s drastic and abrupt cut in funding by the National Institutes of Health.

The daisy over his shoulder, he sallied back toward his wife, very pleased with himself.

Chess, by and large, is a war game played by nonmartial people who would have trouble identifying the business end of an M16 or explaining the difference between an embrasure and a sally port.

However, despite learning much about scarce yellow sally, the scientists still have no idea how it got its name.