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Example sentences for: mercenary

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A mercenary makes it clear he/she is fighting for money, not attempting to hide the expectation of booty behind a wedding invitation.
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.
A front-page Wall Street Journal feature visits the mercenary mouths behind political campaign commercials.
At the south end of the square is the 14th-century Loggia della Signoria or dei Lanzi, transformed from the city fathers’ ceremonial grandstand into a guardroom for Swiss mercenary Landsknechte.
But whatever the merits of his case are or aren't, it will be pretty amusing to watch Barbour take sides in a propaganda war after letting everybody know he was available to work for either side on mercenary terms.