"pirate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In season 7 episode 4 of Charmed, Phoebe uses this term when the pirates threaten to kill them.
- When the pirate threatens her, she throws him out of the window.
- In the 13th and 14th century pirates threatened the Hanseatic routes and nearly brought sea trade to the brink of extinction.
- When the captain refused, the pirates grabbed his wife and threatened to kill her if he did not tell them where the money was hidden.
- When the Yi Sun-shin pursued the hijacked vessel, the pirates threatened to kill the tanker crew.
- The captain complies after the pirates threaten to open fire on the ship and its civilian passengers.
- The ship was pursued briefly by US and Dutch naval ships, but these gave up the chase when the pirates threatened the crew with guns.
- The pirates threatened reprisals if Hupeh were boarded, but agreed to leave the ship if they were granted safe passage to a nearby island.
- The well was, in turn, connected to the powder magazines under the piazza so the latter could be flooded in the event pirates threatened to overrun the ramparts.
- If the ransom was not delivered, the pirates threatened to destroy the ships and rough up their crews.
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