How To Use Buccaneer In A Sentence

In fact, the mark ties with that of the 1976-77 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, an expansion team that lost the first 26 games of its existence, the longest losing streak in major American professional sports.
Unlike the buccaneers, who had fired high to cripple their enemies above decks, the French fifed low to smash the hull of their assailant. Captain Blood
Conservatives longed for the return of a healthy system of independent party politics, freed from the buccaneering methods of an autocratic prime minister and his retainers.
But just as the buccaneers moved their sights from building societies to life companies, so too the friendly societies may yet meet their Waterloo.
Those unwilling to concede that the corruption is pervasive generally blame rogue buccaneers at a handful of companies.

And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
So, midlife, he has decided to launch himself as a buccaneering freelance journalist. Times, Sunday Times
Borderers, buccaneers, robber, and humorsome people, like Dugald Dalgetty and Bailie Nicol Jarvie and Macwheeble, whom he said he preferred to any person in “Waverley,” were the characters he delighted in. Waverley
•The scene: After training at Disney's Sports Complex outside Orlando for seven years, the Buccaneers have stayed home for camp at their sprawling, state-of-the-art headquarters, which like their previous digs is affectionately known as One Buc Place. Youth won't stop Bucs' Morris from running old-school camp
Injuries: Buccaneers: Out: QB Chris Simms (splenectomy). NFL grid: Week 8
Just don't expect them to scrap their 3-4 look, which suits the personnel, for the Tampa 2 scheme Tomlin coached as an assistant with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Minnesota Vikings. As change comes for Steelers, can winning ways be saved?
As a buccaneering, inspirational left-back, he displaced Kenny Sansom in the England team and went on to make 78 international appearances between 1987 and 2000.
Dampier and Mr Hobby were left alone on their ship, within hearing of the buccaneers, who sang, and danced to the fiddle, and clinked the cannikin, till the moon had set. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
He shall come, sidesmen accostant, by aryan jubilarian and on brigadier-general Nolan or and buccaneer-admiral Browne, with — who can doubt it? — his golden beagles and his white elkox terriers for a hunting on our littlego illcome faxes. Finnegans Wake
By 1994 Murphy had become one of the industry's buccaneers - a software contractor with, he says, ‘the ultimate gun-for-hire mentality.’
Now then, what aggravates me is that these troglodytes and muscovites and bandoleers and buccaneers are ALSO trying to crowd in and share the benefit of the law, and compel everybody to revere their Shakespeare and hold him sacred. What Is Man? and Other Essays
These pirates or buccaneers were part of the French fleet as Curacao would have been a rich prize for these pirates who were always on the lookout for rich pickings.
For they define money and value across continents over the heads of political systems and democracies; buccaneers in business suits, they rate the very material we fund and feather our lives with.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the islands were feared as the haunt of pirates and buccaneers from Cornwall, France and Spain, who would lie in wait for poorly defended ships.
The basis for the story is that in February 1704, William Dampier, a noted British buccaneer and navigator, arrived at Juan Fernandez with two ships, both licensed privateers.
But it's true a patch does bestow a buccaneering air on, for example, Snake Plissken, or Bond villain Emilio Largo, or Les Amants du Pont-Neuf's Michèle Juliet Binoche who goes one-eyed water-skiing down the Seine. Anne Billson – Cutter's Way and the great tradition of the film eyepatch
Back on the ship, as the plot thickens and roils, our brave buccaneers flounder in the doldrums.
Eventually he joins the buccaneer William Dampier and they swashbuckle around the Pacific.
If a new commission fails to bring order to the buccaneering world of tuna fishing, say sayonara to tuna sushi.
Every A-road and motorway should have a fourth lane, where thrusting high-achievers can drive at phenomenal speeds, endangering only each other, unsafe in the knowledge they'vegot phenomenally fast reactions, a trait which is common to all business buccaneers. A lane with no limits
Commanding 36 ships and 2000 fellow buccaneers, Morgan sacked the town and left his men to the burning and looting.
I'll always think of you as an ecclesiastical buccaneer with an overdeveloped taste for magic," said Aysgarth fondly. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
For all its buccaneering swagger, the quality that sets the current Australian team apart from its rugby union contemporaries is its defensive intransigence.
More than a million and a half jobs have been offshored as multinational buccaneers move plants and assembly lines to countries whose workers are paid poverty wages.
Since they provided their own weapons, the variety was large, from carbines, fowling pieces, buccaneers, muskets and fuzees.
Maschler was the buccaneering young publisher who revitalised Jonathan Cape.
Seals spent the 1988 season on injured reserve, and the Buccaneers moved him to the defensive line.
He was a buccaneer, a pirate, a circumnavigator, an author, a captain in the navy and an hydrographer. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
Thus it came to pass that one of the islands of the Archipelago of Bermuda, erstwhile the haunt of buccaneers, became the lair of another gang.
The following year he won it in buccaneering fashion, forcing Schumacher to attempt to drive him off the road in the final race.
This fierce and buccaneerish person summoned the dozing hostler in a coarse, imperative voice, flung him the reins, sprang from his seat, and assisted his companion to alight. The Redemption of David Corson
John was lionised in the business press as a Scottish business buccaneer, who sometimes seemed able to walk on water.
The bare-chested frontman sports a handlebar mustache that seems to unroll every time he trills a buccaneer rrrr.
There was even a buccaneering Robin Hood element, in that their programmes had a genuine popular appeal.
Even if most Americans are not aware that subsidy shakedowns debilitate local budgets, they do know the names of the corporate buccaneers who have wrecked retirement plans and kicked the slats out of an already wobbly economy.
I was actually sheltered during a heavy rainstorm in a stone manor house belonging to a buccaneer.
A buccaneering businessman and politician, he built up an impressive empire of railway interests, and if he did not create a large part of the network as George Hudson did, he certainly sustained his interest in it for far longer.
This year, however, a new international organisation called the Tuna Commission will try to bring order to the often buccaneering world of high-seas tuna fishing.
Now then, what aggravates me is, that these troglodytes and muscovites and bandoleers and buccaneers are also trying to crowd in and share the benefit of the law, and compel everybody to revere their Shakespeare and hold him sacred. Is Shakespeare Dead?
The Buccaneers bandwagon is smoldering after an embarrassing loss in San Francisco.
Jocko told of the buccaneer's career from his first act of rapine and plunder to that island that saw his chests of stuffs and treasures ripped open and scattered on the sands.
Millicent's family summered on an 1,800-acre estate in Southampton, N.Y.; her parents had built an Italianate villa there that would make one of Edith Wharton's buccaneers blush. She Wore It Well
So, midlife, he has decided to launch himself as a buccaneering freelance journalist. Times, Sunday Times
To handle their constant calls, the air-mile buccaneers went shopping for cell phones.
The new President is a big fan of our buccaneering desire to go it alone. The Sun
British laughter is not the kind of laughter that the enemy likes, because it is the same laughter as that of old Elizabethan buccaneers. What I Have Seen Over There and Over Here
Historically the territory of bullfighters, bandits, guerrillas and smugglers, this rocky region was doubtless seen by Welles as more akin to his buccaneering spirit than some genteel churchyard.
Skipper Robbie Casey is back to form, got up and down the park in his usual buccaneering manner, fired in plenty of solid tackles and in general led the team well.
Like many other impecunious Caribbean drifters at the time, Dampier slipped into a life of freebooting and buccaneering, hopping from ship to ship, raiding Spanish vessels and towns.
The new President is a big fan of our buccaneering desire to go it alone. The Sun
So, midlife, he has decided to launch himself as a buccaneering freelance journalist. Times, Sunday Times
But they were not reticent enough to prevent the circulation of certain uneasy rumours and extravagant stories of discreditable adventures -- discreditable, that is, from the buccaneering point of view -- of which Captain Blood had been guilty. Captain Blood
Businessmen seemed to combine a buccaneer's spirit with a slide-rule mind.
Perhaps the deals did not suit the buccaneering English style. Times, Sunday Times
RBS recovers in, what, three to five years, it's not going to be the same kind of buccaneering, high-risk enterprise it has been for the past decade. ndm John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
The people she envied were men, the merchant venturers, the buccaneers of capitalism.
The Buccaneers brought linebackers, safeties and cornerbacks from every angle.
I guess most readers think of it as a left-wing enterprise and of Julian Assange as a buccaneering fighter for free speech. Who will confront the hatred in Hungary? | Nick Cohen
So at last "buccaneering," as it had come to be generically called, ceased to pay the vast dividends that it had done at first. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
The Buccaneers earned their title berth with a 50-14 win against Kittanning (10-5). Post-gazette.com - News
Before long we get back to root of the insult "blaggard" or the black guard slave corps then we're at the buccaneers or "privateers" who tipped the balance in global european expansion. Indymedia Ireland
In a vintage season for strikers, no one has been better than the buccaneering Dutchman, who has shown it is perfectly possible to come back from a serious knee injury and flourish in the most physically demanding league in Europe.
His buccaneering style has always suggested that Dubai is his personal fiefdom. Times, Sunday Times
The people she envied were men, the merchant venturers, the buccaneers of capitalism.
There's a pub there, close both to the huge Neolithic mines of Grime's Graves and the Lingheath pits that supplied gunflints to army, navy and buccaneers, called The Flint Knappers.
So, midlife, he has decided to launch himself as a buccaneering freelance journalist. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, were it not for the spirited counterattack of the Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose buccaneering charge from down the order breathed some life back into a body that was on the point of expiring, the game might already be beyond the reach of India. India 224, England 84-0 | Third Test day one match report
It mattered not how many soaps were spawned: to get the big bucks from the advertisers who would be drawn to the honeypot, Murdoch and his fellow buccaneers needed sport.
Picking up where they left off last season as the NFL's No. 1 ranked defense, the Buccaneers again flustered Eagles star quarterback Donovan McNabb, who threw for just 148 yards and was intercepted once. USATODAY.com
The new President is a big fan of our buccaneering desire to go it alone. The Sun
There was even a buccaneering Robin Hood element, in that their programmes had a genuine popular appeal.
This picturesque town has been a haven for ships - merchantmen, naval vessels, and buccaneer galleons - since the 1600s.
The logo dodgers, the streetfighters who wrecked city centres across the world, the internet buccaneers who saw corporations as monsters stamping down on the little guy, they all fell silent.
Dire circumstances gave social sanction to small scale corruption and spivs were simultaneously despised and admired as buccaneers.
This ill-starred expedition was the last sent from St. Domingo against the buccaneers, who thenceforward became the masters and lord proprietaries of Tortuga. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
An Australian who was a pioneer of aerial reconnaissance flew daring spy flights over Nazi Germany before World War II, but a buccaneering attitude led to his fall from favour, writes Jeff Watson.
Former Nebraska quarterback Sam Keller traveled to Tampa Thursday to participate in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ' rookie mini-camp.
Now then, what aggravates me is, that these troglodytes and muscovites and bandoleers and buccaneers are _also_ trying to crowd in and share the benefit of the law, and compel everybody to revere their Shakespeare and hold him sacred. Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography
The Buccaneers weren't a poor rushing offense in 2008, coming in at 15th in total rushing yards, but they lacked a detonative element, averaging just 4.1 yards per carry - good for Fanball Fantasy Football News - Newsbreakers
In the mid-1600s, the French used the buccaneers as mercenaries in an unofficial war against the Spanish.
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The game breaker was Manuel Santelices' 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, giving the host Buccaneers a 16-6 lead.
He shall come, sidesmen accostant, by aryan jubilarian and on brigadier-general Nolan or and buccaneer-admiral Browne, with — who can doubt it? — his golden beagles and his white elkox terriers for a hunting on our littlego illcome faxes. Finnegans Wake
Following the voyage by Vasco da Gama in 1497-9, round the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut and safely back to Lisbon, the Portuguese set about their entry into the spice trade with a buccaneering zest from which other nations quickly learned.
Michael Douglas as the memorable Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street, with a character based on the real-life buccaneer conglomerateur Ivan Boesky. Redeeming the Dismal Science
The welfare of children is the highest good yet the Cardinal's buccaneering action was in many ways counter-productive.
Corporate buccaneers have found it difficult maintaining their own pace after the licence raj.
Di Giorgio Martini's fortress walls splay outwards, down to the sea to repel marauding buccaneers.
Former Nebraska quarterback Sam Keller traveled to Tampa Thursday to participate in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ' rookie mini-camp.
His buccaneering style has always suggested that Dubai is his personal fiefdom. Times, Sunday Times
Or you could go swashbuckling in "The Three Musketeers" or "Treasure Island," where Captain Flint was "the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed. Books With Strong Male Characters
You decide whether to become a space buccaneer or a bona fide trader.
The Buccaneers, locked in a bitter struggle for a new stadium, could attempt to leave Tampa Bay after next season.
The most famous buccaneers have been shrouded in legend and folklore for so long that it's almost impossible to distinguish between myth and reality.
While Basel cannot be described as buccaneering it took a long time before they were pinned down and United were indifferent in midfield. Basel 2-1 Manchester United | Champions League Group C match report
The Buccaneers, dashing enough in its way with its traditional piratic flavour, was still too land-bound by far.
Even if most Americans are not aware that subsidy shakedowns debilitate local budgets, they do know the names of the corporate buccaneers who have wrecked retirement plans and kicked the slats out of an already wobbly economy.
The buccaneer fought the King's soldiers for many a year until a large force of redcoats stormed his redoubt.
It reminded him of pirates and buccaneers and fearless men who roamed the high seas in search of adventure.
The buccaneer fought the King's soldiers for many a year until a large force of redcoats stormed his redoubt.
Easy headlines, a strong balance sheet make for a touch of ‘romance’, the image of a business buccaneer.
At one time, it used to be said that boys liked books about adventures in strange lands, with plenty of fights, a few buccaneers, hoodlums and cowboys thrown in.
You don't have the buccaneering spirit that you had when studio heads were willing to take chances.
This picturesque town has been a haven for ships - merchantmen, naval vessels, and buccaneer galleons - since the 1600s.
In a scathing attack on the minister's record, Richard said a buccaneering approach to managing the national finances had destroyed the confidence which was the vital component in Ireland's economic success.
And we are admirers of his buccaneering, entrepreneurial style.
Joss liked good clothes and he wore them well, but nothing could totally disguise what her grandfather had described as his buccaneering quality; that arrogant maleness that no amount of city suiting could tame. Lovers Touch
It was Wisconsin which, in an age of buccaneering capitalism, produced those caring and socially sensitive politicians, the La Follettes, father and son.
We are trying very much as Britain did in the early 1980's to rediscover our buccaneering past.
Vladimir Potanin was a buccaneering businessman who quit his job in the foreign ministry and within a few years built a small trading company into one of Russia's leading banks.
She married a man who was erratic, undependable and bad at paying bills - ‘Lots of women like these chaps who are buccaneers, and don't realise they aren't good husband material’.
Navy renegades upstaged it with a buccaneering March landing on South Georgia, in direct contravention of orders.
New studies are out showing that while the pirates of old certainly were not nice guys, they did have a code of ethics that puts today's corporate buccaneers to shame.
They no longer seemed charming buccaneers but out-of-touch dogmatists. Times, Sunday Times
He assigned mechanics to squadrons, giving each mechanic the cap and patch of his own squadron-the Buccaneers or the Black Falcons.
The buccaneers made grummets, or rings, of it, for use in their row boats instead of tholes or rowlocks. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
The buccaneer haughtily challenged mynheer to fight the battle over again -- stipulating that his consort should stand aloof from the engagement, and, that should the Dutchman conquer, both the pirate vessels should be his. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Fitting, since the first barbecues were held on the beach on old Arawak grills called buccans that eventually brought us the words "barbecue" and "buccaneer" as sailors took up grilling. Panama, Ho!
The Heseltines came later, as raiders from the Scottish borders in the 18th century - which might have some bearing on the buccaneering side to Robert's character.
NATO gives a "multilateralist" fig leaf to brutal buccaneering expeditions. People's Weekly World Blog
And I certainly wasn't the first woman to always fall in love with a buccaneer, you know, with someone who's exciting and made me laugh - Ted always made me laugh.
One recommends this Cazaio rather to the spinners of romance: with his morality -- a trifle buccaneerish on occasion -- once discreetly palliated, history affords few heroes more instantly taking to the fancy .... Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
Today, we play with pirate talk and its mythical lore as a means of stepping into the important performance role of a buccaneering jester. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
These Internet buccaneers have apparently figured out how to trick the Internet domain naming system and hijack any old name they like.
They afterwards came to be called Cameroons, and are mostly so spoken of in the books of English buccaneers. Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main
Early in his career, which began in 1995 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Holcomb seemed more comfortable with a clipboard in his hands than a pigskin.
Former Nebraska quarterback Sam Keller traveled to Tampa Thursday to participate in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ' rookie mini-camp.

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