How to Use pirate in a Sentence

pirate

1 of 2 noun

• A software pirate made bootleg copies of the computer program.
• To be on a real boat and see the cannons and see the people dressed like pirates.
  — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 10 May 2023
• Teddy wears a red coat with a ruffled shirt and a big pirate's hat in the adorable photos.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2022
• Much like the pirate code, a show bible is really just a set of guidelines.
  — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• The first weekend is pirate themed and the second is fantasy themed.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• Fred had the body of a defensive tackle and the head of a pirate, with silver hoop earrings and wild gray hair.
  — Greg Burton, The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2023
• Trade your resources for ships, pirate lairs, and more while avoiding the spooky Ghost Captain.
  — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 27 Oct. 2023
• The couple appeared to enjoy some special one-on-one time with Olympia as the three of them dressed up as pirates.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
• The supermodel stunned in a verdant green Loewe puffer with a pair of dark wash jeans and a brown, faux fur pirate hat.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2022
• In one photo, Bieber dressed as a vampire, her arm draped around a skeleton dressed as a pirate.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2023
• Despite his loathing of pirates, Will joins forces with Sparrow.
  — Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• Vulcan has a pointy fin, Black Spot a black eye resembling a pirate patch around her right eye.
  — Juli Berwald, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• Don’t worry though, you won’t be left smelling like a pirate, thanks to sweat-fighting aluminum.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• The show tells the story of Luffy, a young man on his way to become pirate king alongside a crew of friends who help him on his hunt for treasure.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 17 June 2023
• And with Brady on the verge of becoming a free agent, there could soon be a lot more questions than answers on Bowles' pirate ship.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• Elsewhere, there’s a children’s playroom decked out with a pirate ship and a slide for the actual kids.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2022
• The hākoakoa, or subantarctic skua, is the bird equivalent of a pirate, Rykers said.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
• After the pirates move on Mr. Sachman made the most of his lone semester at Georgetown.
  — Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• This includes a closer look into the life of Shanks, who inspired Luffy to become a pirate.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 31 Oct. 2022
• Eat outside and after dinner your kids can let off steam at the on-site pirate ship playground.
  — Karen Cicero, Parents, 1 Aug. 2023
• Kids can channel their inner pirates with this fun lake gear, which sports a Jolly Roger flag and its own squirt gun.
  — Outdoor Life Commerce Team, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2023
• Those with the best pirate impression got the opportunity to play Skull and Bones with Lynch in his store.
  — Jeff Fedotin, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• There’s the pirate who’s said to have buried treasure on Liberty Island.
  — Julia Halperin, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Watch as performers brave the high seas to fight with pirates, swashbuckle, and have run-ins with mermaids.
  — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
• The basketball player and his wife dressed as pirates, while their kids rocked varying looks.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
• In the past, obituary pirates have been punished for their misdeeds.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• The manga takes place in a fantastical world where pirates and marines battle for control over the Blue Sea.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
• Fatty’s inscrutable gaze is made more so by small pieces of blue duct tape covering his right eye, like a pirate’s patch.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Landing the role of pirate queen Nebula on Hercules came at the perfect time for Torres.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2022
• Silver and black, the body pattern resembles a pirate’s skull and crossbones.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023

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pirate

2 of 2 verb

• He was accused of pirating their invention.
• Every week, new accounts on the app pop up and pirate entire episodes of the show.
  — WIRED, 23 Jan. 2023
• There’s a ton of junk out there, and many of these sites pirate content (which can land you in hot water).
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 July 2021
• Close to half of survey respondents who pirated shows or movies said the cost of the content is too high.
  — Gavin Bridge, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023
• Most of the memes of the image are pirated online spoofs, so Guillem is not getting much in the way of a copyright kickback.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 28 Aug. 2017
• New Hampshire's Isles of Shoals is primarily known for its ties to pirate lore.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2021
• About 70% of the software in use in China, for example, is pirated.
  — James Bacchus, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2017
• Once spoke to a Raiders fan, who was dressed as some sort of Raiders pirate, for some 10 minutes about the quality of officiating in the league.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• Sell better toys and shut down companies that are pirating their stuff.
  — Paul Brinkmann, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 June 2017
• With content spend slowing down, there may well be fewer titles to pirate in 2023, which may see the total volume fall.
  — Gavin Bridge, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023
• Thousands of people did pirate-y things, snagged beads from the parade route, and generally ate, drank and were merry.
  — Curt Anderson, ajc, 30 Jan. 2022
• Of course most of filmmakers would not want their film to be pirated for economic aspects.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 Sep. 2023
• Those aware of the gaps in the system will often pirate popular books, best-selling romance author Ruby Dixon tells Rolling Stone.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2023
• These videos cost money to make, but were pirated and posted online without paying the people who made them.
  — Lynsey G., Glamour, 25 Sep. 2017
• Margaret Atwood responds to the revelation that pirated copies of her books are being used to train AI.
  — Margaret Atwood, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2023
• If your kids want to go beyond listening, check out the website, which has links to the book series (for middle-grade kids), information on live shows, and pirate T-shirts.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022
• While its Windows and Office products are used in China, the software is often pirated.
  — Karen Weise, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• The seventh season was also pirated more than 1 billion times.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2017
• In an ironic twist, though, the makers of that firmware have introduced anti-piracy code to prevent people from pirating their own work.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 June 2018
• All over the world, there were people downloading it, pirating, downloading it.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024
• Yet tech companies have long made these kinds of calls, dating back to efforts to thwart child exploitation and police people who pirate music and movies.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
• By the time the takedowns are issued, the game or match being pirated is already over, making the DMCA takedown requests mostly useless.
  — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 30 Aug. 2023
• The last member to be banished from the group was actor Carmine Caridi, who was booted in 2004 for sharing promotional copies of films that were later pirated.
  — Josh Rottenberg, latimes.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• This year, Sony, which owns World Cup broadcast rights in India, has already issued a warning to potential streaming sites that may try and pirate 2018 matches.
  — Kurt Wagner, Recode, 15 June 2018
• Set in the year 2144, Autonomous follows Jack, a rogue scientist who pirates life-saving drugs for people who can’t afford them.
  — Tiffany Kelly, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2017
• The finale, meanwhile, was pirated more than 120 million times in the same time period following its airing.
  — Travis M. Andrews, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The problem is when the content of those kinds of services feature is pirated, breaking copyright laws and preventing the owner of that content from making money.
  — Lisa Fu, Fortune, 14 July 2017
• The lawsuit against Dragon Media says the box and the software provided by Dragon Media greatly simplify the process of viewing pirated video.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2018
• The recipe was pirated from Weber’s without permission.
  — cleveland, 18 May 2020
• Truex could have crashed Busch — practically everyone else crashed somebody — and pirated the win, but Truex played nice and finished second.
  — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 3 May 2024