Example sentences for: hireling

How can you use “hireling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To the letter-writers it seems perfectly clear: All honest men can see the obvious truth that globalization is a terrible thing, and only a capitalist hireling would deny it.

  • In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

  • ," Paul Krugman defends himself against critics who apparently accused him of selling out to foreign powers and multinational corporations in his July column supporting trade with China ("The East Is in the Red") by attacking me as a hireling of protectionist interests directed by textile magnate Roger Milliken.

  • Two years ago, a London Sunday Times hireling bearded Pynchon on the streets of Manhattan and nearly got his head bitten off: "Get your fucking hand out of my face!"

  • In England it is generally given to a state hireling for treason to his country.


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