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Example sentences for: privateering

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With just as much gusto as they’d shown in the past for wrecking, privateering, and blockade running, Bahamians took to the seas with illegal liquor.
New Providence knew some spells of prosperity in the mid-18th century as privateering resumed with England at war with Spain.
Take, for instance, the Rhode Islander who pointed to a sparrow hawk (birders prefer to call it a kestrel) and, perhaps being mindful the early colony's questionable custom of profitable privateering, called it a privateer hawk . Would that be understood in Nebraska?
But reluctance dissolved as profits from privateering once again flowed into Nassau.
In this haven for pirates and rum-runners, Samuel Cunard (1787–1865) founded his famous transatlantic shipping line with a fortune acquired in large part from privateering.