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Pirating

Pirate \Pi"rate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pirated; p. pr. & vb. n. Pirating.] [Cf. F. pirater.] To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.

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pirating

vb. (present participle of pirate English)

Usage examples of "pirating".

Otherwise, he wouldn’t be pirating in this sector—or holding up our vessel at the point of his phasers.

They'd fallen into the business of pirating quite by accident—had done fairly well for themselves, too—yet they felt that the risks involved were no longer worth the aggravation.

It was only a matter of time before he was caught, if they continued with their pirating escapades, or so Colin relentlessly nagged, until Nathan finally agreed.

He'd taken to the unsavory habit of wearing his dark brown hair as long as his friend's, a lingering leftover from his pirating days, but that minor fashion sin didn't detract from the perfection of his unscarred face.

The seaman admitted he was damned happy his pirating days were behind him.

Some one was pirating the main source of Welladan wealth so that no substantial revenue had been garnered from the whales in months.

Apart from sorting out the problem of which race ‘owned’ Ireta, the Thek had departed without reference to bringing the perpetrators of planet pirating to a similar justice.

Chumia says she is writing a great song about her pirating days and how Petaybee got the best of her.

And when we tell ’em we learned when we was off pirating, won’t they wish they’d been along?

And when we tell 'em we learned when we was off pirating, won't they wish they'd been along?