Mercenary in a sentence

The UK’s MoD, in its latest bulletin, said 's Wagner mercenary group has taken control of most of the eastern part of Bakhmut - in line with claims by the mercenary army’s founder Yevgeny Prigozhin on Wednesday.

In a video that surfaced in November 2022, a former Wagner mercenary who allegedly defected to the Ukrainian side but later was captured by Russia, was shown being beaten to death with a sledgehammer, the mercenary group's symbol.

In this Sam Hargrave directorial, Chris Hemsworth’s character Tyler Rake, a mercenary, is recruited by another mercenary Nik Khan (Golshifteh Farahani) to rescue the son (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) of an imprisoned crime lord (Pankaj Tripathi).

After fighting his way through the mercenary base, Parker confronts Masako, the mercenary leader.

This resulted in delay of payments owed to the mercenary troops that had served Carthage in Sicily, leading to a climate of mutual mistrust and, finally, a revolt supported by the Libyan natives, known as the Mercenary War (240–238 BC).

According to reports, North Carolina-based mercenary firm Blackwater was employed to commit the Fallujah massacre.

A former commander of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group who fled to Norway in January told Reuters he wanted to apologize for fighting in Ukraine.

Afterwards the Chinese foreign ministry called the mercenary revolt an "internal affair" for Russia while expressing support for Putin's government.

A giant plane ‘linked to Wagner’ has crashed in Mali just a month after the mutinous mercenary group’s leader met a similar fate a month ago.

Amid the ravages of war, Sergey, a seasoned mercenary, found himself grappling with the relentless violence that has become a way of life and death on the front line.

A new photo appearing to show Russian General Sergei Surovikin, who disappeared from public view following a short-lived mutiny by Wagner mercenary fighters in June, has been published on the social media account of a prominent Russian media personality.

Armored Core 6 places you in the shoes of an independent mercenary called '621' who adopts the callsign Raven from a crashed Armored Core unit.

At memorials to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in an unexplained plane crash exactly 40 days ago, dozens of mourners hailed the mutinous mercenary chief as a patriotic hero of Russia who had spoken to truth to power.

Bakhmut has suffered the heaviest fighting over the past few months, with tens of thousands of Russian soldiers, mercenary fighters and pro-Russian militias mobilised to capture it.

Barb (also a barkeep and part-time mercenary) does the same thing in The only difference was that she shot her enemies instead of outwitting them.

Belarus's dictator Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that he talked Vladimir Putin out of executing Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin for his uprising against the Kremlin.

But the mercenary chief then continued to move around Russia and abroad as if nothing had happened, at the Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg last month – and making a video appearance, which appeared to have been filmed in Africa – a few days ago.

Easily the most shocking of the four announced characters was Deadpool and somehow the family-unfriendly mercenary is here already.

Eight bodies were found at the crash site of a private jet on which Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger, Russian state news agency RIA have reported.

Even if the bombing of the mercenary base Prigozhin raged about was faked, as the Kremlin insisted, Prigozhin may still have been in fear for this life, Richardson says.