Example Sentences
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She and her brood live high up in the trees, jumping from branch to branch and occasionally making exploratory sallies on the ground.
From Salon • May 11, 2025
“He’s someone who sallies forth and soldiers on and gets unusual oxygen from the steepest climbs and most vexing situations,” she said.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2019
They’re still getting to know one another—making conversational sallies, seeking to befriend or impress or charm.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2019
Here and there decisive sallies rattled the partisans of one side or another, but most battles seemed destined to come to, uh, a stalemate.
From Slate • Jan. 25, 2018
Readers of The Times in London were told that what was otherwise an “imposing ceremony” was “rendered ludicrous by some of the luckless sallies of that poor President Lincoln.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
