SALLY


Meaning of SALLY in English

I. noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Monk treats Russell's sallies with humourless seriousness, trying to get us to see them as proof of intellectual irresponsibility.

No sallies once they get there.

Oliver swept off his battered top hat in ironic acknowledgement of her sally .

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

forth

Their mountainous homeland with its fortress valleys was a near impregnable base from which to sally forth .

But Tommy was so good natured about everything and he would sally forth and start asking people where his strays might be.

We need, therefore, to sally forth once more into the mathematical jungle of vector spaces.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At the very least they must be contained and never allowed to sally out.

But Tommy was so good natured about everything and he would sally forth and start asking people where his strays might be.

From their orbital hive-turned-fortress, they would sally out against whoever was left and eat them alive.

Their mountainous homeland with its fortress valleys was a near impregnable base from which to sally forth.

We need, therefore, to sally forth once more into the mathematical jungle of vector spaces.

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