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    sorties example sentences

    sorties


    1. Maintenance says they can turn the birds around in 20 minutes between sorties


    2. Already, the Wing had launched and recovered 28 F-100 sorties


    3. Here in Vietnam the USAF flies over 400 sorties per day in support of ground troops


    4. I'd say that, USAF-wide, taking into account SAC, recce, air lift, and training, the close air support mission only accounts for about fifteen or twenty percent of all sorties flown


    5. "Commando Sabre is a program of out-country sorties to direct and control strike missions against enemy targets of opportunity


    6. André and I hit it off rather well and before his return to Paris at the end of term to marry his sweetheart, we made several sorties together into the countryside in his deux chevaux, visiting stately homes and gardens


    7. They dwelt as in a besieged castle, making sorties and forays on their enemies


    8. The men on the battle-towers can mask any sorties from the city


    9. And he, too, enthralled Suleiman with stories of his sorties into the Selous; Africa’s largest game reserve, too big to patrol effectively and big enough to hunt unseen for days on end


    10. The Luftwaffe, on the other hand, had flown many sorties in the French campaign and needed time to recover

    11. In a total of three group sorties, we sank all four battleships and the two heavy cruisers, at the cost of two medium bombers, two fighter-bombers and one torpedo plane


    12. I can now provide for the next few days about 500 close air support sorties per day, plus 150 air superiority and deep interdiction sorties per day


    13. This does not count the sorties that the Polish, French, Belgian, Dutch and Canadian squadrons can provide, which would add about 900 sorties per day, half of them in ground support and the other half in air superiority


    14. He sat there transfixed, making little mewing noises as Jeremy berated someone for cheating on their partner with his lap-dancing grandmother (or something like that; her frequent sorties into the kitchen for top-up sarnies had made it tricky to work out precisely what was going on)


    15. He was committed as well as being consistent, and his band of supporters, swelled over the recent months of activity, would join him in their sideline sorties and frontal attacks


    16. The holiday season went into high gear with friends and parties, cultural activities and interminable dinners at the port, with sorties to recommended tavernas in neighboring villages and the new luxury hotels that sprouted on the island and sported music and dancing


    17. The inmates had to stand a regular siege and drive away their assailants by a sortie, or rather by a series of sorties, for the place of those who were repulsed would be taken by other besiegers stronger and more resolute


    18. My only pastime consisted in military sorties


    19. Therefore I see I am obliged to abide by the advice of the majority, which has ruled that prudence as well as reason declares that we should await in the town the siege which threatens us, and that we should defeat the attacks of the enemy by the force of artillery, and, if the possibility present itself, by well-directed sorties


    20. Palashka has also heard Maximitch say that he often sees you from afar in the sorties, and that you do not take care of yourself, nor think of those who pray God for you with tears

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