sally
IPA: sˈæɫi
noun
- A willow
- Any tree that looks like a willow
- An object made from the above trees' wood
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- An excursion or side trip.
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- (New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.
- A kind of stonefly.
- A wren.
- A diminutive of the female given name Sarah, also used as a formal given name.
- (Britain, slang) A nickname for the Salvation Army
verb
- (intransitive) To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position).
- (intransitive) To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth.")
- (intransitive) To venture off the beaten path.
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Examples of "sally" in Sentences
- He laughed at the sally.
- People laughed at her sally.
- The ship was ordered to sally.
- Sally is the more gifted of the two.
- Is she laughing at the sally he made
- Sally is the receptionist of the hotel.
- He is trying to not laugh at the sally.
- He is not in a mood of listening to sally.
- Some people are confused between joke and sally.
- a timely sally from the town; and he had fixed his lieutenant,
- And as you said, most jails do have what they call a sally port.
- And yes mummy, sally is browner (and thankfully smaller than Clifford).
- Durazzo to assist their own deliverance by a well-timed sally from the town.
- Miranda urged him to come over to the insurgent side but Santa Anna made a bold sally from the city and broke the siege.
- Of such soldiers, few could be tempted to sally from the gates; and none could be persuaded to remain in the field, unless they wanted strength and speed to escape from the
- The Apulian and Ragusian vessels fled to the shore, several were cut from their cables, and dragged away by the conqueror; and a sally from the town carried slaughter and dismay to the tents of the Norman duke.
- 'Squander the hell-rook ranks sally to molest him' means 'Scatter the ranks that sally to molest him': but since the words _squander_ and _sally_ occupy similar positions in the two sections of the verse, and are enforced by a similar accentuation, the second verb deprived of its pronoun will follow the first and appear as an imperative; and there is nothing to prevent its being so taken but the contradiction that it makes in the meaning; whereas the grammar should expose and enforce the meaning, not have to be determined by the meaning.