How to Use buccaneer in a Sentence

buccaneer

noun

• 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
• The buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than just securing husbands and titles.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• 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
• But your beach-blanket buccaneers are abusing this convention and effectively privatizing what should be public.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024