How to Use bender in a Sentence

bender

noun

• He went on a bender and was drunk all weekend.
• Or will the day’s headlines prompt us to go all out and splurge on an end-of-the-world bender?
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• So tourism won’t be about benders and showing skin at the beach, then?
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• Joi Gilliam, a genre-bender who also loves the stage, has been a fan of Davis since the early 90s.
  — Essence, 9 Feb. 2022
• Don’t tell me you guys have fallen off the wagon and have gone on a Big Mac bender.
  — Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, 27 Jan. 2020
• And, lucky for us, Teigen's beauty bender didn't stop there.
  — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• This is the snack mix that fueled the school day sugar benders of your childhood.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 8 Mar. 2017
• This is the snack mix that fueled the school day sugar benders of your childhood.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 8 Mar. 2017
• But what about middle-aged tourists with money to burn who want to go on a bender in Times Square?
  — Curbed, 19 May 2022
• The financier brothers are still on their Salinger bender.
  — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 15 July 2016
• In the past, Scott has gone on very public benders to get her attention.
  — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 23 Oct. 2017
• Cops said Bender may have been on a bender, as he was snookered.
  — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 May 2017
• Amy Palms has been perfecting her skills as a glass bender for more than 20 years.
  — Jessica Christian, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2018
• Lewis died on May 1 after a fender-bender crash between the two in St. Paul.
  — Alex Chhith, Star Tribune, 21 Apr. 2021
• This weekend, just as the Guardian/Times scoop was hitting the fan, Trump and his minions went on something of a bender.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• The new country was on a bender, and its drinking would only increase in the years that followed.
  — Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021
• But Donnie Darko isn’t just a trippy sci-fi mind-bender.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 21 Feb. 2018
• The oddly appealing result sounds a bit like Usher and T-Pain at the end of a wild bender.
  — Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2024
• The unidentified man got into a minor fender-bender in May 2018 and fled the scene.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2020
• Cut 3⁄8-inch rebar with bolt cutters, and bend the pieces into shape by hand or with a rebar bender.
  — David Agrell and Eric Weil, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2020
• Rina Sawayama has made a name for herself as a genre-bender.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2021
• Stock fanned Rizzo with an 86 mph bender after running his fastball up to 98 mph in the at-bat.
  — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Oh, the things these servers must have seen during Dallas St. Patrick’s Parade benders.
  — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
• Getting knocked out once, or beating up random strangers on a bender for two days?
  — Steven Marrocco, MMA Junkie, 29 Aug. 2019
• The musicians were genre benders, stitching patches of hard rock, hip-hop, and new wave to a veil of soft, velvety pop.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 June 2018
• At the time, Mr. Watts was in the early stages of a midlife crisis that manifested itself as a two-year bender.
  — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• That's not a brain-bender, but a new, modular approach.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 24 Jan. 2020
• He’s shown waking up nearly naked and bloody on a park bench, having clearly been on one hell of a bender the night before.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
• Over the next six weeks or so, a trillion cicadas will emerge across the Midwest and Southeast for a brief, raucous, once-in-a-lifetime bender.
  — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 6 May 2024
• But just in time for the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, which kick off on July 26, the croissant seems to be donning its party clothes and going on a bender.
  — Amy Thomas, Vogue, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024