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Six example sentences with mercenary, each labelled with its topic.
Renaissance city-states rarely raised their own armies, hiring a mercenary from Germany to command their troops each campaign season.
History
You can recruit a mercenary in the tavern for two hundred gold, and he leaves the moment the wages stop.
Gaming
The plot follows a mercenary who takes contracts abroad for whichever government pays most, until one job troubles his conscience.
Movies
The novel's hero is a mercenary from Switzerland who fights for an Italian duke and cannot remember which flag he last saluted.
Literature
Under the 1977 protocol a mercenary, hired from abroad chiefly for pay, is not entitled to the protections given a captured soldier.
Law
Parliament demanded to know why the ministry had paid a foreign mercenary to guard the embassy instead of using its own troops.
Politics
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