Thesaurus results for SALLIES

sallies 1 of 2

noun

plural of sally

as in excursions

a short trip for pleasure a morning sally out to see the historic monuments around the city

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as in jokes

something said or done to cause laughter the final sally made her laugh, and that ended the argument

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sallies

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verb

present tense third-person singular of sally

as in traps

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Noun

Day trip options include excursions to rum distillery Appleton Estate and a visit to YS Falls for ziplining and swimming.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Transfers, formalities, excursions, and ground transportation are handled throughout.

— Guy Bigiaoui, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026

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Television’s rise forced it to reinvent itself by introducing live disc jockeys who played music and told jokes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
As a teenager, Davidson would sit in the back of the bus and write jokes on his way to and from basketball games and try them on his teammates.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of jokes

Noun

This autumn, there are plenty of comedians rounding the country, all primed to provide you with boundless laughs.

— Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 1 Oct. 2026
Some in San Francisco label him a moderate, though that designation would draw laughs elsewhere in the country and even in Sacramento.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of laughs

Verb

Literature states that the recurrence rate after one pregnancy is affected by anencephaly jumps dramatically to between 2%-5%.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Its robots physically traveled to Finland and performed the furnace jumps themselves.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of jumps

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If that holds up in real-world use, flight schools could squeeze in more than six sorties per aircraft each day, without the downtime of refueling a gas tank.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2026
The two men often kept in touch about their sorties, but not this time.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of sorties

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The result is an incredible repository of vexations, bafflements, witticisms, and brilliancies.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
The initial experience of Shakespeare’s meter leads to a world of discovery of a man who quite literally changed the world with witticisms and insight and has shaped every corner of humanity since the 16th century.

— David John Chávez, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026

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