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Example sentences for: mercenary

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Executive Outcomes, a South African mercenary business, recently invaded, stabilized, and controlled Sierra Leone for a year--interrupting a long-waged civil war--in order to protect that country's diamond mines.
patel `village headman' and pindari `18th-century mercenary,' from Hindi or Marathi.
And on it goes, a list of nose-wrinkling quibbles you can still hear today: We're mercenary, self-centered, impolite, and worst of all, too bourgeois to understand the geniuses of our age, such as Jerry Lewis and Mickey Rourke.
In 1266, they financed the mercenary army of Charles d’Anjou to defeat the imperial forces — and take the Sicilian throne.
One imagines that discriminating people in the 16 th century mourned the death of high fashion in much the same way, when slashed sleeves, grotesquely imitating the rags of mercenary soldiers, came into style.