Wondering how to use Buccaneering in a sentence? Below are 9 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as piracy or hijacking.
Buccaneering meaning
bold, reckless and unscrupulous
Using Buccaneering
- The main meaning on this page is: bold, reckless and unscrupulous
- Useful related words include: piracy, highjacking, hijacking.
- In the example corpus, buccaneering often appears in combinations such as: of buccaneering.
Context around Buccaneering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Buccaneering
- In this selection, "buccaneering" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, left, pioneer and britain stand out and add context to how "buccaneering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include engaged in buccaneering and growth of buccaneering on tortuga. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "buccaneering" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with buccaneering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The buccaneering full-back carried on where he left off after the resumption. (13 words)
This was the day when his vision of a buccaneering Britain would reach fruition. (14 words)
Clifford became extremely wealthy through his buccaneering, but lost most of his money gambling on horse races. (17 words)
France international Hernandez is a buccaneering left-back by trade but has been forced to move to the centre of defence by an injury crisis which has left Pioli without Fikayo Tomori, Malick Thiaw and Pierre Kalulu. (37 words)
In the mid-2000s, Eyl vaulted into the headlines as the epicentre of a wave of piracy that emerged after members of local fishing communities, by foreign trawlers' predation, turned to buccaneering. (32 words)
Indeed, many advocates of Brexit had argued that once the UK was freed from the chains of the European Union (EU), it could pursue a buccaneering future as “Global Britain”. (30 words)
Example sentences (9)
France international Hernandez is a buccaneering left-back by trade but has been forced to move to the centre of defence by an injury crisis which has left Pioli without Fikayo Tomori, Malick Thiaw and Pierre Kalulu.
In the mid-2000s, Eyl vaulted into the headlines as the epicentre of a wave of piracy that emerged after members of local fishing communities, by foreign trawlers' predation, turned to buccaneering.
In the shoes of would-be outsiders, you would surely want to be convinced that the company would not fall apart without its buccaneering pioneer.
This was the day when his vision of a buccaneering Britain would reach fruition.
Indeed, many advocates of Brexit had argued that once the UK was freed from the chains of the European Union (EU), it could pursue a buccaneering future as “Global Britain”.
The buccaneering full-back carried on where he left off after the resumption.
Clifford became extremely wealthy through his buccaneering, but lost most of his money gambling on horse races.
He was back at Largo in 1701, when he again came to the attention of church authorities for beating up his brothers.sfn Early on, he was engaged in buccaneering.
The growth of buccaneering on Tortuga was augmented by the English capture of Jamaica from Spain in 1655.
Common combinations with buccaneering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of buccaneering 2×