buccaneer

Example Sentences

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Highwaymen rogues, buccaneers, cut-throats, they were like young princes to me, still only a lowly dishwasher.

From Salon

It was a buccaneering innings full of trademark shots square of the wicket as he cut, dabbed, pulled and effortlessly flicked his way to three figures.

From BBC

Fred Goodwin did that in buccaneering and bullying style, trampling over the older canny values of conventional Scottish finance with the goal of creating a global giant.

From BBC

England's bold, brash and buccaneering style is winning them plenty of friends and admirers.

From BBC

Their buccaneering batting is made all the more thrilling by the risk of it going spectacularly wrong, like watching a tightrope walker tiptoe between skyscrapers.

From BBC