Sorties is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SORTIES in dictionary:

VERB:
• SORTIE, to attack suddenly from a defensive position
• come out from a defensive position to make an attack
NOUN:
• an attack made by troops coming out from a position of defence.
• an operational flight by a single military aircraft.
• a short trip or journey
• an attempt to participate in a new activity or sphere

Words related to SORTIES

sortie6 sortied8 sortieing10

How to use SORTIES in a sentence

• Three gates besides the Lahore gave egress to the mutineers when making sorties, the afterwards celebrated Kashmir Gate, the Kabul and the Ajmir Gates.
• It speaks well for the prowess of the mutineers, and proves that we had no contemptible foe to deal with, that so many sorties and attacks were made by them during the siege.
• The sorties from the gates turned out comparatively harmless, and seemed meant only as demonstrations to draw out our troops from the cover of the advanced trenches.
• By degrees, though the youngest there, Henry came to be allowed a certain leadership in these sorties of the human element.
• Save for a few sorties by the Russians, the next fortnight passed quietly.
• Sometimes Spike returned from these sorties unscathed and with money.
• Assaults on the one side and sorties on the other were begun with ardor.
• The besiegers, confident in their strength, kept careless watch, and the sorties of the besieged became more numerous.
• These sorties, if successful, may be frequently repeated, for they tend very much to prolong the siege.
• Depression was to-day increased by one of those futile sorties which only end in retirement.
• In front of the Ridge the ground was covered with old buildings, enclosures, and clumps of trees, which afforded only too perfect shelter to the enemy when making their sorties.
• I remembered the various sorties with torches after the chirping frogs, and knew that by this opening the hunting party had emerged.
• Several sorties of the besieged to capture the battery were unsuccessful.
• While awaiting the arrival of the government money these brigands made nightly sorties from Saint-Savin, and the whole region was alarmed by their depredations.
• The officer commanding, an old and experienced soldier, soon ceased these useless sorties.
• Two sorties consisting of troops and armed peasants have been driven back.
• Instead of this, with the exception of some two or three harmless sorties, they have been allowed slowly to inclose us in a net of circumvallations.
• So long as the town is not assaulted, and they do not take part in sorties, they cannot be said to be actively heroic.
• Our sorties are much like these Hibernian surprises.
• It is to be hoped that Trochu will at last perceive this, and limit his efforts to keeping the Prussians out of Paris, and harassing them by frequent and partial sorties.
• One thing is certain, that all his sorties have failed not only in the result, but in the conception.
• For the sake of humanity, it is to be hoped that we shall have no more of these blind sorties.
• The great feature of the siege, however, was the fierceness and the number of the sorties.
• At times they made sorties, but these were always driven in again, with much loss.
• He had made various little sorties and had been driven back, when a soft hand was slipped into his fat palm and he was piloted across in safety.
• Again and again Dick broke around the left end in a spirited dash, or Dan Dalzell made one of his swift sorties at right end.
• Nearly every day they attempted sorties which they could not prolong.
• During the Marne and the three sorties of the Belgian army, they had only a very small number of men at their disposal to garrison the largest towns.
• On the 5th Captain Juan de Amezquita led another sortie, and so between sorties, surprises, night attacks, and mutual cannonadings things continued till the 21st of October.
• But the Turkish garrison, reinforced by the mountaineers, fought desperately, made fierce sorties, and replied to all proposals for surrender by the shots of their artillery.
• Yet these Italian artificers and merchant seamen seemed to take it as coolly as though such sorties were an everyday occurrence.
• Reports of battles, and sorties came home at rare intervals.
• In the sorties from that beleaguered town he had successively distinguished himself by his fearless audacity.
• It may have been merely coincident, but these attacks and sorties began at the time the Captain General of Manila was relieved by his second in command.
• These combats were never serious, and the Spaniards, so far as I know, made no sorties upon them.
• But sorties were repulsed, and the garrison had to stand on the defensive.
• Sorties against them had resulted in the death of their assailants, only.
• Many other sorties were made from the fortress, but were designed rather to delay the siege than with any serious hope of breaking the investment.

Similar words containing SORTIE without suffix s

sortie6 sortied8 sortieing10

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