buccaneering

How To Use buccaneering In A Sentence

• 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.
• So, midlife, he has decided to launch himself as a buccaneering freelance journalist. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.
• 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
• If a new commission fails to bring order to the buccaneering world of tuna fishing, say sayonara to tuna sushi.
• For all its buccaneering swagger, the quality that sets the current Australian team apart from its rugby union contemporaries is its defensive intransigence.
• Maschler was the buccaneering young publisher who revitalised Jonathan Cape.
• The following year he won it in buccaneering fashion, forcing Schumacher to attempt to drive him off the road in the final race.
• There was even a buccaneering Robin Hood element, in that their programmes had a genuine popular appeal.
• 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.