sortie
noun
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
sortied
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past participleof sortie.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof sortie.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
sortienouna rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
Example Sentences
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The ROK Air Force then sortied its fighters, including about 80 fifth-generation F-35As.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
While his classmates flew long, bitterly cold patrols at the front that winter, young Stalin sortied into Moscow.
From Time Magazine Archive
After a proper tea, the cruisers again sortied out of the smoke.
From Time Magazine Archive
Japan's main fleet never again sortied in full force.
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
