Example sentences for: mercenaries

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

  • Prudie thanks you for your support and regrets that she may have insulted official mercenaries.

  • The government in this diamond-rich country has battled insurgents since 1991, with mining conglomerates, mercenaries, and other outside interests supplying arms, money, and expertise to both sides.

  • Increasingly desperate, Mobutu uses Serbian mercenaries to fight the rebels.

  • Recent best-selling memoirs by former agents tell of colleagues who ran drugs and free-lanced as mercenaries . Mossad also brokered secret, dubiously legal, private arms sales to Central American regimes and South Africa's white government.

  • The island did not get directly involved in Greece’s Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, however it became well-known as a valuable source of brave and energetic mercenaries.


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