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Example sentences for: barbary
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The Barbary Coast was burned down after the Great Earthquake of 1906, but its tawdry tradition lives on in the (now ever-dwindling) number of topless bars and strip clubs along Broadway.
The lions, monkeys, cheetahs, kangaroos, and polar bears are long gone, but zebra, goats, and Barbary sheep can still be seen.
By comparison, the coastal settlements languished, and were subject to frequent raids by Barbary pirates.
During the supremacy of the Barbary Coast pirates in the 16th and 17th centuries, Formentera was so vulnerable it had to be abandoned, and it wasn’t resettled until the 18th century.
•The moment that the Spanish monarchs looked the other way, the daring pirates of the North African Barbary Coast — and elsewhere — moved in.