Example sentences for: mercenary

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

  • Prudie is guessing you subscribe to Soldier of Fortune magazine, because you are certainly a mercenary.

  • ' So I began telling him about how I was a mercenary in Africa in a country where I became close to the President.

  • Gillian Anderson's growling Moro sounds silly (she doesn't have the breath control), and the fey-hick tones of Billy Bob Thornton are too recognizable as the Akim Tamiroff-like mercenary, Jigo.

  • 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.

  • In the third bay on the north aisle is Paolo Uccello’s statue-like equestrian painting of the 15th-century English mercenary Sir John Hawkwood (unpronounceable for Italians, so known as Giovanni Acuto).


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