Example sentences for: pirates

How can you use “pirates” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Anchored by Privateers’ Warehouse (Halifax was a popular haven for pirates from the Napoleonic Wars to the rum-running Prohibition Era of the 1920s) is a grand racing schooner, Bluenose II.

  • When their position was threatened by Ligurian pirates at sea and warlike tribes from inland, the merchants of Marseilles called on Rome for help.

  • The pirates may well have been the key to the outcome, for they alone knew the ins and outs of the bayou country, from where the British attack would come.

  • One room houses displays on pirates through the ages.

  • With his rampant curls, bluff growl, black eye patch, and bright-colored pirate shirts and scarves, he's the perfect foil to geek chic, a year-round version of the "Seafair Pirates" who frolic at our big summer parade--the artist for the new buccaneer capitalism, the jester who amuses (but never challenges) the geeks.


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