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How to use piratical in a sentence

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American directors sported piratical eye-patches and had difficulty with rolling tobacco.
Bronwyn is tall, blonde, willowy, already a great beauty, while Ian is darkly bearded, almost piratical.
A hefty Pallas's gull, may cast a glacial eye at them, winging slowly past, its intentions piratical.
It's a piratical adventure game that sees you exploring, fishing, fighting and meeting a host of characters.
But not just any ship, it needed to be fast enough to sail the seas undetected and yet fearsome enough to do justice to my stalwart piratical persona.
Ruth, aged 47, the piratical maid-of-all-work in the same opera, seemed merely an old hag-bag figure of fun.
Similarly, Mrs. Partlet in The Sorcerer transformed into Little Buttercup in Pinafore, then into Ruth, the piratical maid-of-all-work in Pirates.
America may be the least piratical country of all oddly, since Napster was born there. One reason is cost.
The only inconvenience was the frequent piratical invasions that infested these shores.
This may be understandable-there was a piratical side to this philosophy, or a nomadic one, as Deleuze would say.
Napster thus couldn't plead ignorance of its users' piratical pastimes.
With the thin, vertical scar down his right cheek, the general effect was faintly piratical.
A nurserymaid is not afraid of what you people call work, So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work.
Lots of links to other piratical sites abound.
The participants evoked the illicit fishing being carried out in ACP waters and considered that the ACP States should be equipped to face this piratical activity in their waters.
Many junks were fitted out with carronades and other weapons for naval or piratical uses.
As unanimously argued by mankind, the Iraqi War unleashed by the US is an unlawful aggressive war never justifiable by any means, massacre of innocent people and piratical violation of the state sovereignty.
Just owning piratical kit may not be enough.
Possibly some, like the later Viking settlers, may have begun as piratical raiders who later seized land and made permanent settlements.
We would do well to remember that, against the piratical ambitions of Germany and Japan alike, the one sure shield of defence is actual combat in the front line of battle, whether on land, at sea or in the air.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Again we were told that the piratical Serbs had seized the town of Alessio.
No tidings could be gained either of the brig or the fleet of piratical junks.
Captain Romer, with his war-steamer, was on the look-out for piratical dhows.
Heave to, you rascally pack of piratical cut-throats, or I will fire into you!
Dahl looked the part of a lady-killer with long, piratical locks, leather britches and a blousy white shirt.
If I tell the truth, they will be seized as piratical plunder.
She wuz ther most piratical craft in petticoats wot I ever seen!
In piratical vessels, to frighten their prey with a semblance of valour.
But we gladly pass from the cruel to the cunning phase of piratical life.
There was a manifest need of some well-defined piratical purpose.
So have I seen a bird with clipped wing, making affrighted broken circles in the air, vainly striving to escape the piratical hawks.
Some lost heart and proposed to return, rather than fight their way, and, in a manner, run the gauntlet through the country of these piratical marauders.
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