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

Two days earlier—on Friday, April 26—we’d humped all the way from Base Camp to Camp Two in one long day to begin our third and final acclimatization sortie in preparation for the summit push.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

It spent more than 200 days in a combat zone and launched more than 10,000 sorties, according to acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Its air force has been flying thousands of sorties around the clock over Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

US and Israeli aircraft use a considerable amount of fuel reaching the Gulf and flying sorties over Iran, said Benjamin Neimark at the Queen Mary University of London.

From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 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

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

Japan's main fleet never again sortied in full force.

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