How to Use buccaneer in a Sentence

buccaneer

noun
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  • That’s this week’s profile of Elon Musk, tech buccaneer.
    — Marshall Kilduff, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Answer: Give them a pirate’s eye patch, a buccaneer’s bandana and a tankard of rum.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Over the following years, the buccaneer captains fell one by one.
    — National Geographic, 2 July 2020
  • In 1760, Jacques Kanon, a buccaneer, bought the estate and gave his name for luck and prosperity.
    — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Or Joseph Duveen, the eccentric buccaneer art dealer played by Adrien Brody in the same story.
    — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2021
  • In Yetnikoff’s day, a buccaneer didn’t have to explain himself to anyone.
    — Jordan Michelman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • However tantalizing the hints of piracy, all the ships seem to have been sunk by storms, not by battles or buccaneers.
    — Nick Romeo, National Geographic, 26 Oct. 2016
  • The Tampa Bay Buccaneers didn’t have any speed at wide receiver last season.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 5 June 2017
  • The dress is modern, but in a fanciful way with amusingly gaudy getups for the courtiers and lots of vests and buccaneer boots among Susan Szegda’s costumes.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
  • The days of Adam Humphries finishing second among Buccaneers receivers in targets are over.
    — Eric Single, SI.com, 1 May 2017
  • Palmieri, an aging art buccaneer and former Vietnam draft dodger, remains very much alive today, now in his 70s.
    — Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The Chargin' Buccaneers are looking to duplicate last year's result this fall.
    — James Smith, NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
  • The large cast, costumed and made up as a fitly scalawags and sinister buccaneers, gives tremendous energy to every scene.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
  • The large cast, costumed and made up as a fitly scalawags and sinister buccaneers, gives tremendous energy to every scene.
    — Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
  • Most of those plot points involve Guybrush’s archnemesis, the undead buccaneer LeChuck.
    — Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The buccaneer Yerofei Khabarov led a gang that slaughtered and raped its way through the Siberian native villages along the river, setting up Russian settlements in their gory wake.
    — Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2022
  • After Defoe’s death in 1731, some readers claimed the novel was inspired by Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish buccaneer who’d spent four and a half years on an island by himself.
    — National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2016
  • The very first seconds of your buccaneer career are marred with strange, artificial limitations that continue to pockmark the rest of the game.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Today, the same remoteness that once drew buccaneers lures tens of thousands of yearly visitors.
    — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2023
  • By then, the island had long been associated with buccaneers.
    — Rich Cohen, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • So goes a familiar refrain in Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean, spoken by a robotic buccaneer pining for a chance to buy a wife in a scene that depicts a bridal auction.
    — Todd Martens, latimes.com, 15 July 2017
  • The bright red metal canister and buccaneer-esque design bring to mind pirates and adventure.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Merl could easily be a buccaneer’s grandmother, with her heavy gold earrings and delighted laugh.
    — Horatio Clare, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
  • After trading in his comfortable life for one of a buccaneer, Stede becomes captain of a pirate ship, but struggles to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Buccaneers and pirate-wannabes of all ages abound, since pirate attire is encouraged and usually available from event vendors.
    — Madeline McKenzie, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
  • Margot Robbie is sailing into new blockbuster waters, veering from Harley Quinn's girl gang to having her own Disney buccaneer squad.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 26 June 2020
  • Besides killing and cooking critters, mariners and buccaneers also brought rats and other pests with them to the islands that decimated the local populations.
    — Sam Schipani, Smithsonian, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Her father was a son of Sam Lord, a notorious Barbadian buccaneer who died in 1844, relatives said.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Pirates Cove Playground has a huge pirate ship for buccaneer and swashbuckler adventures.
    — Jennifer Boehm, sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2019
  • Other ships ferried passengers, pine and, less nobly, freshwater buccaneers eager to raid other ships' cargo.
    — Chris McNamara, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2017

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