sallying

present participle of sally

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sallying
Verb
  • EDTIn a press conference, authorities shared security camera footage of the gunman running across a roof and jumping down from a building before leaving the Utah Valley University campus.
    Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The footage showed the person running across the roof of one of the university’s buildings, before jumping down and escaping the scene.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With the new capital, the company plans to bring several more drugs into clinical trials, tackling diseases that include asthma, inflammatory bowel disease and obesity.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Prabhudeva makes his streaming debut as a cop tackling a politically sensitive murder case.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There's been widespread internet speculation that the brand might end up charging for its RideSync services, but CFMoto has dispelled those rumors as well.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Governor Spencer Cox stated that prosecutors have three days to formally file the charging documents, with an announcement anticipated early next week.
    Amanda Castro Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Ventless hoods don't have ductwork and include a charcoal filter for trapping smoke and odors so that air can be recirculated.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The pickup truck caught fire on impact, trapping its driver inside.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • No amount of mugging before the cameras in Tianjin could mask the comedown this represents.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Smith also appeared in several of the duo’s music videos, which teased his future SNL face-mugging persona.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • While Qataris may now indeed question the value of their military cooperation with the United States and its designation of Qatar as a major non-NATO ally, Turkey’s military presence in the country also failed to prevent Israel from attacking.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Show Viz Nuno Espirito Santo’s Nottingham Forest had counter-attacking licked.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The camera was also capturing a growing blurring of the boundaries between the Japanese and Taiwanese urban elite in colonial society.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of using a single bulky lens, the camera employs a thin mask embedded with dozens of tiny lenslets, each capturing a unique perspective of the same object.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That total lack of self-awareness and disregard for consequences fed right into Epstein’s warped way of entrapping others.
    Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Sallying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sallying. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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