sally
noun
a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.
sallying
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present participleof sally.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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“I tended toward … a kind of diffuse sallying through the world, staying open to the coincidence, digression, and movement,” she writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
But sallying forth without any of them is a recipe for misery.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 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
The girls were practically confined to the hut for many days in succession, only sallying forth to catch fish, which they cooked at a new stove built nearer the hut.
From The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas by Mrs. Herbert Strang
