How to Use piracy in a Sentence

piracy

noun
  • Triller just prevailed on two of its cases against him for piracy.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But rapid growth has also opened the door for rampant piracy and fraud.
    — NBC News, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The blockade will fail, as all piracy is doomed to collapse.
    — Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Many of them noted that piracy in the strait has declined in recent years.
    — Yantoultra Ngui, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • He was known to offer places in his band to captives who preferred piracy to death.
    — Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2023
  • No ransoms had been demanded, and no piracy seemed to be afoot.
    — The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nonetheless, there is no denying its piracy of the prose tale.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Having no crew or guard to watch for and evade pirates would make piracy easier.
    — Michael Carroll, Newsweek, 3 July 2014
  • The list goes on, which may be why digital piracy is seeing a resurgence.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Can’t wait to see all the piracy and fragmentation backfire on them for this.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The literary ride could be a bit smoother, but maybe that's just inherent to piracy.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 June 2021
  • 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
  • The rigid silos of the past -- the ones that got us into the piracy mess of yesterday -- will not serve us.
    — Dmitri Vietze, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The other is the cheap, but legally treacherous path of piracy.
    — Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Crews from more than 20 countries have been threatened or taken hostage in acts of piracy.
    — NBC News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Porch piracy is a problem that may be solved by the spread of parcel-delivering drones.
    — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The chief danger here is that the conditions that allowed piracy to re-emerge remain in place.
    — Luke McGee, Time, 27 May 2026
  • The Coast Guard hadn’t been able to find any instances of piracy in the area where Dad was.
    — Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Soccer is already in a constant battle against piracy.
    — John Cassillo, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
  • When the Premier League formed three decades ago piracy was of little concern.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The group was tasked with protecting shipping lanes from piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Putin denounced that interception as an act of piracy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The show promises to be full of smuggling, piracy, derring do, and other space shenanigans.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 June 2025
  • 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
  • Even with Fairley gone from Potrero, the porch piracy has continued.
    — Lauren Smiley, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Some fans took the changes to mean that different cuts of the show were being released, fueling a piracy push.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 19 June 2025
  • In this sense, piracy may signal not just risk but opportunity.
    — Dylan Spencer, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2026

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