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Sentence Examples I covered a lot of pirate radio in Austin but my editor told me to cut that after a while. The pirate leader was screaming in anger, trying to gain access to his remaining weapons. He might surface, gasp for air and taunting by his pirate comrades and then be keelhauled back underwater. Tonight I made ratatouille and polenta, so apparently I'm a slightly poncey pirate. They knew he would never jettison anyone short of an attacking pirate, but he did not like having to cater to his former competitor. After a hard week of training, I was very ready to get involved in the mayhem of a pirate rampage. And the truth is that despite the ban on J-pop, Japanese music sells well in South Korea, albeit as a pirate product. Minutes later, we're leaping joyfully across a bay of sparkling wavelets towards a headland crowned with the ruins of a pirate castle. I'm planning on being a sexy girl pirate or a sexy witch, but if that all falls through, I have various outfits that I wear for hula performances. Does anyone know how to make kick-pleats on the back of a pirate coat? He also found several items of correspondence, including a letter to the pirate from Tobias Knight. So you can imagine a pirate rather reluctantly engaging in this behavior as a way of preserving that reputation. Portuguese presence in Macau was further strengthened in 1568 when they aided the Ming in fighting off a hundred pirate ships. Prior to the rise of the internet, drum and bass was commonly broadcast over pirate radio. From 1628 to 1634 the island was plagued by pirate ships of French, Basque, English and Spanish origin. Also, a number of nations have used their naval forces to protect private ships from pirate attacks and pursue pirates. Toward the end of the 9th century, Moorish pirate havens were established along the coast of southern France and northern Italy. Zaporizhian Sich was a pirate republic in Europe from the 16th through to the 18th century. In general, pirate craft were extremely difficult for patrolling craft to actually hunt down and capture. Living conditions were so poor that many sailors began to prefer a freer existence as a pirate. Show More Sentences In fact, pirate quartermasters were a counterbalance to the captain and had the power to veto his orders. In 1548 Zhu Wan carried out a raid on Shuangyu, a pirate base off the coast of Zhejiang. A software pirate made bootleg copies of the computer program. It fell above all on Northern Frankland, and soon the Scheldt, the Meuse, and the Rhine were full of pirate squadrons. His exploits made him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards, to whom he was known as El Draque. Drake was considered a hero in England and a pirate in Spain for his raids. Subtracting the Somali pirate inmates still leaves the Seychelles with the highest incarceration rate in the world. At what point during the war Teach joined the fighting is, in keeping with the record of most of his life before he became a pirate, unknown. Possibly about 1716, he joined the crew of Captain Benjamin Hornigold, a renowned pirate who operated from New Providence's safe waters. He had also been pursued by Teach's old commander, Benjamin Hornigold, who was by then a pirate hunter. Barrie's novel, Peter Pan, where the fictional pirate Captain Hook and his crew helped define the fictional pirate archetype. Vikings made the islands the headquarters of their pirate expeditions carried out against Norway and the coasts of mainland Scotland. Vikings then used the islands as a base for pirate expeditions to Norway and the coasts of mainland Scotland. For several decades around the turn of the 18th century, the islands became popular pirate hideouts. She forces Jack aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, a ship captained by the infamous pirate Blackbeard, Angelica's father. Undeterred, the writing team refused to give up the dream, waiting for a studio to pick up their take on a pirate tale. Pirates of the Caribbean is noted for reinvigorating the pirate genre of film after decades of either no pirate films or failed pirate films. Scottish pirate metal band Alestorm have performed a cover of it live and recorded it, which is on their album Captain Morgan's Revenge. Henry Every, described as the most notorious pirate of the late 17th century, was probably born in the village of Newton Ferrers. In gratitude, he decided to stay on along the cliff, probably to help warn the locals of the impending pirate attack if they were to return. Show More Sentences A second radio network was started in 1954 and a third opened 1962 in response to pirate radio stations. General Qi Jiguang made several timed, drifting explosives, to harass Japanese pirate ships. From 1715 to 1728, pirate activity created problems for merchant ships along the trade routes, thus halting growth during that period. The obvious answer as to why a sailor would become a pirate is for the potentially enormous monetary gain. There were also very unconventional trophies, such as the wig of a captured captain that the famed pirate Walter Kennedy once took as booty. However, the goal of the pirate was to rob the ship without fighting or blood loss. Ranks that were found on ordinary vessels of the seventeenth, and eighteenth century were found on pirate ships. A part of becoming a pirate was to meet the expectation of uprooting their living environment and spending most of their time out at sea. As academics like Peter Leeson and Marcus Rediker argue, a pirate was more often than not someone from a previous seagoing occupation. They were merchant seamen, sailors in the royal navy, and privateers, all of whom would form into a pirate crew. A rare occurrence in which a woman was persuaded to board a pirate ship comes from the story of Captain Eric Cobham and a prostitute named Maria. The first notable pirate to be brought to trial with this new set of laws was Captain Kidd. The story of pirate William Fly, who was executed on July 12, 1726 in Boston, illustrates how arrogantly many pirates viewed death. For a pirate however the odds of finding yourself on the gallows were much higher. Rather than civil courts, pirate trials were overseen by the Court of Admiralty. Both Mary and her husband Thomas had joined a pirate gang, and shortly thereafter Mary was captured. The pirate would attack every element of the modern society to form his own identity. It was the sea that was separated from authority, and thus was the pirate who could attack those who entered the oceans. During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, narratives of sea captains and pirate adventures took many forms. Reprinting ensured that historians remained objective, and that the grand pirate narratives remained intact. Show More Sentences He was for a time a pirate based in Newfoundland and then a naval officer with the Royal Navy. In 1614 he sailed his fleet to Newfoundland, saying that the region was the best in which to recruit a pirate crew and reprovision his ships. Mainwaring used Easton's old base at Harbour Grace, Canada, as his pirate base and raided Spanish, Portuguese, and French ships. So feared was his pirate fleet that Spain offered Mainwaring a pardon and high command in return for his services under the Spanish flag. It was an important forerunner of pirate radio and modern commercial radio in the United Kingdom. They had watches that said Gucci or Rolex on them even though it was obvious they'd come straight here from some pirate factory in China. And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies. Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate, movies, music, software, and TV programs. In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise. The Danevirke protected Danish land and gave Godfred the opportunity to harass Frisia and Flanders with pirate raids. Sailing as a slave ship, she was captured by the pirate Captain Benjamin Hornigold on November 28, 1717, near the island of Martinique. While returning homewards, Admiral Zheng He and his associates confronted the pirate fleet of Chen Zuyi at Palembang. During the confrontation, 5000 pirates were killed, ten pirate ships were destroyed by fire, and seven pirate ships were captured. For example, he defeated Chen Zuyi, one of the most feared and respected pirate captains, and returned him back to China for execution. Long stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants, because of frequent pirate attacks. She was captured by a pirate corsair when leaving the port of Cagliari and brought to Cape Pula, Sardinia. In 1574, Manila was temporarily besieged by the Chinese pirate Lim Hong, who was ultimately thwarted by the local inhabitants. In 1600, the Chilean city of Valdivia was conquered by the Dutch pirate Sebastian de Cordes. Cucumber left for half a day, with red peppers and soy sauce and a tidge of sea salt comes through fierce and maritime as a Yangtse pirate. As the handsome and daring air pirate Nathan Zachary, players barnstorm through 1930s America hunting down the murderers of Nathan's best friend. Show More Sentences In June, 11 crew members of the MV Albedo were released by pirate gangs after a ransom was paid. The stereotypical image of a pirate as a peg-legged buccaneer is anachronistic. A voracious giant squid sucking a pirate ship down to Davy Jones' locker. British Royal Navy warships tirelessly hunted down pirate vessels, and almost always won these engagements. As such, the value of pirate plunder could vary considerably depending on who recorded it and where. Unlike traditional Western societies of the time, many Caribbean pirate crews of European descent operated as limited democracies. The first record of such a government aboard a pirate sloop dates to the 17th century. The second is the Queen Anne's Revenge, the flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Because of universal jurisdiction, action can be taken against pirates without objection from the flag state of the pirate vessel. Lafitte is considered by many to be the last buccaneer due to his army of pirates and fleet of pirate ships which held bases in and around the Gulf of Mexico. During the 1st century BC, there were pirate states along the Anatolian coast, threatening the commerce of the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean. Captain Chaloner Ogle of the HMS Swallow cornered Bartholomew Roberts in 1722 at Cape Lopez, and a fatal broadside from the Swallow killed the pirate captain instantly. Roberts' death shocked the pirate world, as well as the Royal Navy. Gun use in pirate attacks has gone up to 176 cases from 76 last year. There is one case recorded where a pirate was given a large diamond worth a great deal more than the value of the handful of small diamonds given to his crewmates as a share. In this world a pirate could be nearly certain that if caught he would end up with a short drop and sudden stop with a noose cinched around his neck. The small island of Nosy Boroha off the northeastern coast of Madagascar has been proposed by some historians as the site of the legendary pirate utopia of Libertalia. The operation seeks to dissuade and interrupt pirate attacks, protect vessels, and abetting to increase the general level of security in the region. To date three identifiable pirate shipwrecks have been discovered. When Fregoso was in due course himself toppled, he fled to the harbour, commandeered four galleys and launched himself on a whole new career as a pirate. Show More Sentences The cannon are of different origins, such as Swedish, English and possibly French, and of different sizes, as would be expected with a colonial pirate crew. For example, in 2006, there were 239 attacks, 77 crew members were kidnapped and 188 taken hostage but only 15 of the pirate attacks resulted in murder. The number of attacks from January to September 2009 had surpassed the previous year's total due to the increased pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and off Somalia. Backers were now reportedly reluctant to finance pirate expeditions due to the low rate of success, and pirates were no longer able to reimburse their creditors. The Marines allegedly mistook the fishing vessel as a pirate vessel. Marcus Rediker argues that religion was another point of contention for the pirate, who saw the church as a piece of the system he wanted to escape. Ojeda eventually returned to Santo Domingo in the brig of a Spanish pirate called Bernardino de Talavera who was fleeing from Hispaniola and passed by the port. After that date all US and British slave ships leaving Africa were legally pirate vessels subject to capture by the United States Navy or Royal Navy. However, the pirate took Ojeda prisoner and would not set him free. By 1974 the pirate identity and Jose Gaspar were so ingrained into Tampa's civic identity that the only logical name for the new NFL franchise was Buccaneers. Acapulco's most historic building is the Fort of San Diego, located east of the main square and originally built in 1616 to protect the city from pirate attacks. Bowie had a cameo in Yellowbeard, a 1983 pirate comedy created by Monty Python members, and a small part as Colin, the hitman in the 1985 film Into the Night. With many pirate radio stations filling up the FM airwaves, the soaring popularity of UK garage saw 1999 take the genre into the mainstream, breaking into the music charts. Joining the hunt is former pirate captain Barbossa, now a privateer in King George II's Navy, who is in a race against the Spanish for the Fountain of Youth. At the beginning of the 18th century, Tabasco and Veracruz united to combat the pirate threat, and succeeded in expelling them from the Isla del Carmen. The outcome of marooning was usually fatal, but William Greenaway and some men loyal to him survived being marooned, as did pirate captain Edward England. According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Vikings then made the islands the headquarters of pirate expeditions carried out against Norway and the coasts of mainland Scotland. The pirate articles of captains Bartholomew Roberts and John Phillips specify marooning as a punishment for cheating one's fellow pirates or other offenses. Such hoards would necessitate a wealthy owner, and their supposed existence ignores the command structure of a pirate vessel, in which the crew often served by free suffrage. Another local legend says that the rocks were named after Harry Paye, the infamous Poole pirate, whose ship hid behind the rocks awaiting passing merchantmen. Show More Sentences In addition, much pirate radio activity is broadcast in the FM range, because of the band's greater clarity and listenership, the smaller size and lower cost of equipment. When Smith was unmasked as the notorious pirate John Gow he sought to escape the attentions of the authorities by making for Eday via a raid on Hall of Clestrain, in Orphir. They say that old pirate, Kingfisher Culpepper, had a stock of the real thing from Robertson County laid in his shebang on the Marsh just before he died. In the late 2000s the ocean evolved into a hub of pirate activity. After Woodes Rogers' 1718 landing at New Providence and his ending of the pirate republic, however, piracy in the West Indies fell into terminal decline. Much of the known pirate activity that took place in the Northern Atlantic was along the Eastern Seaboard of Canada and the US mainland, from Newfoundland to the Florida Keys. Frequently, captured merchantmen would volunteer to join the pirate crew. While nearly as dangerous and deadly as becoming a pirate, colonialism in the Americas offered those who dared, a chance at changing their socioeconomic place. What was disappointing was the cruel take-off of Susan Boyle, the remark, You''re too little to think to the smallest pirate and the use of water pistols on the audience. The game begins by focusing on young Dalmascan thiefVaan, before expanding into an epic quest which includes natty air pirate Balthier and a deposed princess. It was during this cruise with Hornigold that the earliest known report of Teach was made, in which he is recorded as a pirate in his own right, in command of a large crew. When Ivar the impious pirate saw that the noble king would not forsake Christ, but with resolute faith called after Him, he ordered Edmund beheaded, and the heathens did so. As a result, a pirate ship still had the usual terminology found on merchant ships, but the role each ranking sailor would play on the pirate ship was not the norm. The first contacts with the African slave market were made by expeditions to ransom Portuguese subjects enslaved by pirate attacks on Portuguese ships or villages. In the high and palmy days of the crimp, the pirate, the press-gang. Chen Zuyi was a pirate leader whose fleet had seized Palembang on Sumatra. A defining difference in the food system on a pirate vessel is that they did not have to compete with officers like sailors in the navy or merchant services. There were doctors and surgeons present on some pirate vessels. During the Qing period, Chinese pirate fleets grew increasingly large. On 29 October 1407, the Yongle Emperor issued an order to reward the officers and other crew members who went to battle against Chen Zuyi's pirate fleet at Palambeng. Show More Sentences In 1721 the infamous pirate Captain Roberts was cornered off the coast of Africa by a Captain Ogle in the HMS Swallow, a powerful fifty gun warship. The Lingga and Riau archipelagos had a considerable pirate population that posed a threat to passing ships, but these pirates posed no threat to the treasure fleet. Examples from Classical Literature But I'll have a black flag, anyhow, and maybe I'll be a pirate some other time. That she was an Algerine pirate, and had been engaged in plundering the brig, we had no doubt. Had it eventuated in failure, its leader would have been pronounced a pirate and filibuster. But he could see enough to know that the pirate carried a rifle and had a barong tucked into his belt. It boded ill indeed for the pirate if ever the squadron should fall in with him. The crew of the Avenger is an inconceivable ship's complement for any pirate. What difference is there between the figure of the conqueror and that of the pirate? His great difficulty was to prevent the pirate from changing the creese from his right-hand to his left. They are much more difficult to decipher than was the cryptography left by the pirate Kidd. Rick saw him lift a pirate bodily, pluck the barong from his hand, and throw him against two other pirates. The sailor of that day would go near to be arraigned as a pirate in our own. There was more than sunlight to make the Breton pirate blink. I hope she may be, for Captain Benbow is not a man to yield to a pirate. The bewhiskered pirate slapped his thighs and roared with glee. Hadley, and the young oyster pirate, and the whiskered wharf-rat, all with glasses in their hands. The first American naval shipbuilding program, An Act to Provide a Naval Armament, March 18, 1794, was drafted in response to Algerine pirate attacks. Find more words! 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