sallying
- present participle of sally.
Example Sentences
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Finally, some first-timers are valiantly sallying forth — the kind of debuts that’ll be more and more rare as times only get tougher for the restaurant industry under COVID-19.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2020
This is the most appealing side of Arbus: you feel a gust of Whitman, or of her near-contemporary Allen Ginsberg, in her sallying forth to compile such tumultuous chronicles of America.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016
And so I decided to embark on my own immersive tour of those Gilded Age vestiges, sallying forth from my East Village apartment to seek the company of its obsessive modern admirers.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2015
For both sides the primary task of this weekend then is not avoiding sallying forth on to the fiscal slope, but making sure their bindings are tight as they do so.
From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2012
Take, for example, the process of sallying the ice-bound ship for relieving her of any remediable pressure, and giving free action to the power of wind or “warps” for promoting her progress.
From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by Scoresby, William
