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Example sentences for: mercenary

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In 1266, they financed the mercenary army of Charles d’Anjou to defeat the imperial forces — and take the Sicilian throne.
A mercenary makes it clear he/she is fighting for money, not attempting to hide the expectation of booty behind a wedding invitation.
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.
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.
(There was also the effort of Clinton's personal lawyer, Robert Bennett, noted by the NYT and USAT , to portray Willey as mercenary for trying to land a book deal.)