How to Use piracy in a Sentence

piracy

noun

• This isn’t the first a piracy app that has garnered tons of downloads in the App Store, though.
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
• Townsend explained that West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea is one of the top areas for piracy in the world.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 27 Apr. 2021
• Ships in the region have faced a rise in piracy and other attacks over the last few months.
  — Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• The string of islands was a hub of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the seabed is strewn with shipwrecks from treasure fleets.
  — Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023
• But rapid growth has also opened the door for rampant piracy and fraud.
  — NBC News, 10 Jan. 2022
• The bar's name comes from the pirate Jean Lafitte, who was rumored to have used the building for smuggling and piracy.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2024
• The site found that the specific app pictured in the tweet is a clone of an old movie piracy app called Showbox.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 30 Dec. 2021
• And the story of that piracy is now being sold as a TV series ... at great profit to the team who made it.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 6 Feb. 2022
• He was known to offer places in his band to captives who preferred piracy to death.
  — Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2023
• Triller just prevailed on two of its cases against him for piracy.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• A year later, cassette sales had dropped 40.3% while CD sales had dropped just 3%, due to the rise of online piracy.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2023
• Under the black flag Overall, around 4,000 sea dogs plagued the world’s sea lanes during the golden age of piracy.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
• Here are answers to some common questions about porch piracy and tips for how to avoid it.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
• The lesson of history is that piracy won't just fade away.
  — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
• When the Premier League formed three decades ago piracy was of little concern.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• And then there’s outright piracy, a fixture of ’90s life in Russia, now set to make a comeback.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2022
• Nasir and Moss expressed dismay that Google failed to stop PapayAds and the piracy sites sooner.
  — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 21 Dec. 2022
• The literary ride could be a bit smoother, but maybe that's just inherent to piracy.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 June 2021
• No ransoms had been demanded, and no piracy seemed to be afoot.
  — The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• Crews from more than 20 countries have been threatened or taken hostage in acts of piracy.
  — NBC News, 12 Jan. 2024
• How is watching a stream with ads, albeit on VLC instead of the Pluto app, piracy?
  — Chris Person, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
• Without eagle-eyed fans who had seen the original film abroad or via piracy, the ruse may have worked.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
• Kidnapping is rampant throughout the country, as is piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
  — John Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2021
• The list goes on, which may be why digital piracy is seeing a resurgence.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
• India’s response comes amid growing fears that piracy in the Red Sea is resurging.
  — TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• In the 2000s, legal digital downloads were the David to piracy's Goliath.
  — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2020
• Leclerc has come under fire for alleged obituary piracy in the past.
  — Ben Weiss, Wired, 26 Dec. 2021
• The Strait of Malacca has problems with piracy, but the real danger is simply the volume of traffic.
  — James Stavridis, Time, 29 Mar. 2021
• By the late 2000s, piracy had ravaged the music industry.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2022
• The law was passed to protect the nascent U.S. shipping industry from claims for such incidents as piracy or storms, which owners could not control.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024