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Example sentences for: mercenary

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

patel `village headman' and pindari `18th-century mercenary,' from Hindi or Marathi.
Prudie is guessing you subscribe to Soldier of Fortune magazine, because you are certainly a mercenary.
I've devoted a good chunk of my career as a political journalist to criticizing the mercenary culture of Washington: influence peddlers, PACs, and so on.
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.
' So I began telling him about how I was a mercenary in Africa in a country where I became close to the President.