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Example sentences for: pirates

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

Burgeoning trade in the Balearics was interrupted by marauding pirates based in North Africa as well as by the powerful Turkish fleet.
By the time Lisbon mounted a rescue mission, the pirates had long fled (though Montluc himself had been killed during the raid).
But it is worth the walk across the small drawbridge and over the lagoon, onto the small island that the castle used to deter pirates.
The palms are said to have grown from stone spat out by Arab pirates during the first millennium, but today’s crops are not edible.
"Scaring the guests with those fake hippos that popped out of the water in Pirates of the Caribbean/killing them with heavy cleats."