privateer

Example Sentences

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After surviving some of the war’s most consequential battles, Greenwood goes home and then he becomes a privateer, Ward says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

His father, Jan Jansen, a Dutch privateer, was captured by one of the Moorish states in 1618.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2019

It was here that the White Lion, a 160-ton English privateer ship, landed at what was then known as Point Comfort.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2019

Two years in privateer teams followed, in which he did enough to catch the eye of Enzo Ferrari, who drafted him into his team in 1963.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2017

“Best privateer that ever raked a Britisher with a broadside! You want to buy expectations from me?”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham