buccaneer

Example Sentences

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He referred to Pirates of the Caribbean, but said that while that film's lead character Jack Sparrow was a "hero", he believed "these guys are high seas criminals, buccaneers".

From BBC

And Mahomes himself has been a shadow of the buccaneering quarterback who reinvented the position at the peak of his powers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Highwaymen rogues, buccaneers, cut-throats, they were like young princes to me, still only a lowly dishwasher.

From Salon

It was a buccaneering innings full of trademark shots square of the wicket as he cut, dabbed, pulled and effortlessly flicked his way to three figures.

From BBC

Fred Goodwin did that in buccaneering and bullying style, trampling over the older canny values of conventional Scottish finance with the goal of creating a global giant.

From BBC