sallying

Definition of sallyingnext
present participle of sally

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sallying
Verb
  • That resulted in gasoline prices alone jumping nearly 11% from the month prior.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The man is listed on the Douglas County Jail roster Wednesday on potential charges of property damage and bail jumping.
    Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • That players were actually tackling one another and competing doesn’t hurt.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Most of the candidates’ pledges, such as tackling unaffordability, reducing gas prices, increasing capacity in state prisons, protecting gun owners’ rights and keeping trans athletes out of girls’ locker rooms, are nearly identical.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Inside the media center, rows of workstations equipped with laptops and charging points allow reporters to file stories.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Iran has floated the idea of charging ships passing through as part of a peace deal, though the idea has been widely rejected by countries including the United States and Iran’s neighbor Oman.
    Munir Ahmed, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The plant provides habitat for fish, crabs and plankton, feeds migratory birds and locks away carbon and methane — both heat-trapping greenhouse gases — in coastal sediments.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Like all black holes, primordial black holes have mass and thus interact with gravity and are effectively invisible due to the fact that they are bounded by a light-trapping surface called an event horizon.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Noem seemed to relish cruelty, and treated her job like a costume party, constantly mugging for cameras with guns and faux toughness as if the dismantling of lives and imprisoning even children was a game.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Toddler Adalina India, daughter of second baseman Jonathan India and his wife Daniella, scored a home run in the Cute Kiddie Pics division, mugging like a pro on the field for her mom.
    Lisa Gutierrez March 31, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • For any politician unwilling or unable to persuade the public with facts and strong rebuttals, attacking the messenger becomes the path of least resistance.
    Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026
  • When attacking adult or adolescent males, Sandel said the chimpanzees use collective violence.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • If successful, it could be adapted to other nanomaterials and biomass structures, giving rise to a new generation of solar power systems capable of capturing, storing, and managing energy on their own.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Five of Orion’s six windows had live-streaming video cameras capturing the lunar flyby.
    Jennifer Levasseur, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Trump has singled out Moore for criticism, blaming him for a Potomac sewage spill, assailing his handing of Baltimore's bridge collapse and invoking a controversy over his military record.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Horvath, 43, has been one of the mayor’s most outspoken critics over the past year, assailing her record on homelessness and last year’s Palisades fire, which destroyed thousands of homes and left 12 people dead.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
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“Sallying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sallying. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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