How to Use privateer in a Sentence

privateer

noun

• Donne as a young man sailed as a privateer with Raleigh.
  — David Propson, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• While the manufacturers are the heart of race weekend, the privateers are the soul.
  — Mitchell Nicholson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2018
• His father, Jan Jansen, a Dutch privateer, was captured by one of the Moorish states in 1618.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
• With nowhere else to turn, Alina enlists the help of an infamous privateer and sets out to lead the Grisha army.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 1 Oct. 2022
• Factory teams will come and go, but a sports car series like IMSA lives and dies by its privateers.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2018
• Four hundred years ago, in 1619, English privateers sold African captives to Jamestown colonists.
  — Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, Twin Cities, 28 July 2019
• All other examples of 250 GTO were sold to and raced by privateers and teams not run by Ferrari itself.
  — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• What are the challenges and advantages of competing as a small privateer?
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 25 June 2021
• Weeks later, the first enslaved people would arrive in a privateer’s ship at Point Comfort.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
• With the Darkling after her and her powers, Alina turns to an infamous privateer for help.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Apr. 2021
• All seven privateer outfits from the MotoGP paddock will enter the new series in 2019.
  — Jonathan Hawkins, CNN, 14 June 2018
• In the summer of 1619, two warships manned by English privateers raided a Portuguese vessel the pirates hoped was brimming with gold.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2019
• Once upon a time, this tactic took the form of kings and queens granting letters of marque that allowed privateers to roam the oceans and plunder booty from enemy merchant ships.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2017
• Many see Sheikh Amoudi less as a beneficent local son than a Saudi privateer.
  — Danny Hakim and Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
• Then, in the Gulf of Mexico, the ship was attacked by two English privateers – pirates under a foreign flag of convenience.
  — USA Today, 22 Aug. 2019
• One of the ships, Pride of Baltimore II, is a replica of an 1812 privateer vessel, complete with working black powder cannons that will be fired during the parade.
  — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 6 Mar. 2023
• When Darwin arrived, the islands were little more than a stopover for privateers, whalers and other sailing vessels, although at the time, at least one island was a penal colony.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2023
• El Lago sheltered French pirate and privateer Jean Lafitte in the early 19th century.
  — Yvette Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2018
• The Privateers ended the night by honoring their seven seniors after the game with a plaque presentation and fireworks.
  — Nola.com | The Times-Picayune, NOLA.com, 13 May 2017
• The privateer Captain Kidd buried treasure on Gardiners Island.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• Featuring mostly privateers—riders who pay their way to race—these guys and girls have nothing to lose, meaning the races often feature pretty nasty takeouts and a healthy amount of contact.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• Letters of marque and reprisal license the privateer to attack and capture vessels belonging to enemy navies and merchant fleets.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 9 June 2021
• The English wanted these privateers to slow down Spanish settlement and empowered them to attack Spanish ships.
  — National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2019
• Privateers starter Bryan Warzek lasted 6.2 innings, recorded 4 strikeouts and allowed 6 hits.
  — Nola.com | The Times-Picayune, NOLA.com, 13 May 2017
• Not surprisingly, the privateers simply continued their old ways, now as freelancers.
  — Rinker Buck, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2018
• The ambitious privateer also managed to persuade Rolls to provide a degree of factory support.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2023
• Today, North Korea is allowing its hackers to operate as digital privateers in search of crypto plunder like bitcoin.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2017
• Already French privateers have declared open season on American shipping.
  — CBS News, 21 Feb. 2020
• Williams’ interpretation is based on his study of fast-moving events that began in early July 1793, when Genêt challenged Washington’s neutrality by converting a merchant ship into an armed privateer that would launch attacks from American ports.
  — Shaun Assael, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Whether truthful or misleading, a state gains plausible deniability by characterizing its nationals as nonofficial military personnel, using such terms as contractors, mercenaries, privateers or volunteers.
  — Austin Carson, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024