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How to use sallies in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sallies? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The show was certainly a lively, fast-moving, hilarious affair salted with quick-firing sallies of naval wit and wisdom.
Michael furiously takes down all the witty sallies and asides, converting the evening into his next gay play, and, hopefully, a success.
With facts, figures and overwhelming force of argument, Mr Brown sallies forth to crush internal dissent and external opposition alike.
As he treats each individual to a cross-questioning throws in his ironical little sallies about this and that.
Provocatively, Mr Erbakan's first sallies abroad were to such places as Libya and Iran.
The other is the police station, whence officers make occasional sallies to round up drivers or follow up a crime identified by the CCTV operators.
As a writer, he was noted for research, lucidity, occasional sallies of wit, brilliant passages and eloquence.
Committed to small government to the end, one of Mr Friedman's last sallies was against Hong Kong chief executive Donald Tsang's decision to junk the territory's creed of positive non-interventionism.
Rather than profundity, they found profanity: not elegant Voltairean sallies against superstition but gross caricatures, lavatorial gags and adolescent smuttiness.
But, above all, there were a number of us delighted by the sallies of one of the last 'womenloving men of easy virtue' of the century, courted for his shrewdness, his jokes and his address book.
We used Fitzpatrick's classification of tyrannid prey-capture methods to record foraging movements as aerial hawks, perch-to-ground sallies, and sally gleans.
His wife, Mary, back in New Zealand, chanced upon a copy of War Cry, the Sallies magazine, which mentioned Moss's rehabilitation.
I have to go back to my parents place and cart a bunch of old clothes to the Sallies or do something with them.
Examples from Classical Literature
Bands of Highlanders watched its gates and accesses, guarding against Hanoverian sallies.
She sallies forth at night, and her friends are the scampish among the sons of the lower class of tenant-farmers.
Reform tickets make periodic sallies against it, crying economy, efficiency, and a business administration.
Hence, as he sallies forth to seek the site, he keeps his ear alert for the turtledove's2 prophetic cry.
Let a quiet and demure dulness be the foil of your side-splitting sallies.
A certain number of pleasantries were exchanged in the broad, slow accent of the Isle of Thanet, and there was uproarious laughter at the sallies of the local wag.
All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere.
We must hold hard to this poverty, however scandalous, and by more vigorous self-recoveries, after the sallies of action, possess our axis more firmly.
The palace gate flies open and a force of the jeddak's own guard, picked men from the flower of the Okarian army, sallies forth to shatter the broken regiments.
It keeps company with the sallies of the wit and the trances of religion.
And what a jumble of Netties, Nellies, Hatties, and Sallies there is.
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