An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
Used in a Sentence
sorties
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sorties.
Editorial note
It's not clear how many of the 8000 combat sorties sorties flown so far in the Iran war are with F15s, but it's almost certainly several thousand.
Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of sorties gathered in one view.
A surname.
(aviation) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for sorties.
noun
An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
noun
A surname.
noun
(aviation) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
noun
(military, also attributively and figuratively)
Example sentences
It's not clear how many of the 8000 combat sorties sorties flown so far in the Iran war are with F15s, but it's almost certainly several thousand.
Overall during the gulf war coalition forces suffered 52 fixed wing aircraft lost in combat over approximately 116,000 combat sorties.
Yesterday the weather was much better over iraq, so they set a record for the # of sorties in a single day.
Reminder Iraq was 20% size of Iran, and so far US+Israel only flew ~20% of sorties via Iran than it has Iraq.
Successful sorties get uploaded, unsuccessful ones do not (if only because it's boring media).
Combat sorties are hours of boredom where you have to keep attention just in case, followed by an explosion of frantic action.
Let's be glad this attacker didn't have a drone that flew sorties over or sensors while sniffing nearby 802.11 and retransmitting bogus packets.
So eager were many minimally trained pilots to take part in suicide missions that when their sorties were delayed or aborted, the pilots became deeply despondent.
There were only 5900 F15 sorties during the gulf war.
Most of those sorties haven't been in Iranian air space.
Out of >10k sorties something is going to get hit.
Can't sustain surge sorties forever, especially with regional logistics wrecked.
Quote examples
I wouldn't count 2-3 downed jets across many thousands of sorties "working quite well", no.
"A lot more sorties" needs to be discussed before dismissing this as not helping.
You hinted at it when you asked whether "we're carrying out a lot more sorties than we did prior," but you only mentioned the military cost of it.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use sorties in a sentence?
It's not clear how many of the 8000 combat sorties sorties flown so far in the Iran war are with F15s, but it's almost certainly several thousand.
What does sorties mean?
An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
What part of speech is sorties?
sorties is commonly used as noun.