How to Use sugar daddy in a Sentence

sugar daddy

noun
  • She's on the lookout for a new sugar daddy.
  • One of her shadier comments was a dig at your husband being a sugar daddy.
    Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 6 May 2022
  • Would Kelsey Chevrolet be a legal sugar daddy for Xavier?
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 29 June 2021
  • The film’s attitude toward the demimonde of Hong Kong sugar daddies and the models who pretend to love them boils down to a cheeky and rather thoughtless shrug.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2023
  • The dress that Lizzo wore to the BET awards, with the tell-tale signature waterfall feather sleeves, is a red carpet sugar daddy robe.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Finding the right sugar daddy and slowly building trust simply takes time.
    Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Even the old sugar daddies seem wary of anything outside their rich but circumscribed circle.
    Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Any scenario where your friend would need to send money to her potential sugar daddy could be this sort of mistaken overpayment scam and is a red flag.
    Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Florida has the largest per capita population of sugar daddies in the United States.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • Sennott plays a woman who attends a funeral service with her parents and runs into her sugar daddy and his wife.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Knows [Ariana is] crying and decides getting drunk with a sugar daddy is better.
    Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The new museum director, the article implied, was little more than a chorus girl with a sugar daddy.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2022
  • But probably not one including your ex-girlfriend, sugar daddy (wife and baby daughter in tow) and your parents, too.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Andrew, good-looking and glibly sophisticated, becomes a gigolo to some very rich sugar daddies in San Diego.
    Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Unfortunately for all sugar daddies in revolt, the T-shirt is currently sold out.
    Andrea Park, Glamour, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Millie has since decided against continuing to look for a sugar daddy or mummy.
    Serena Smith, refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Family gatherings are never a walk in the park, but imagine being a young woman attending a shiva just to find out that your sugar daddy is in attendance.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Sugar babies and sugar daddies exchange high-level gear for companionship in World of Warcraft.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Monsieur Carradine, a suave real estate developer and Juliette’s would-be sugar daddy, wants to buy the brothers’ property to make room for a new casino.
    New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • In a classic sugar daddy (or mama) relationship, the older person gives the younger person money for bills, housing, clothes and/or personal grooming and gets companionship to whatever level the two of them agree.
    David J. Neal, miamiherald, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Family gatherings can be awkward even in the best of situations — let alone when juggling an ex-girlfriend, a secret sugar daddy, and a slew of overly inquisitive relatives, all under one roof.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Some college students deal with the financial realities of getting a college education by getting a sugar daddy.
    David J. Neal, miamiherald, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Shiva Baby is a movie with a perfect logline: a sugar baby runs into both her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend while sitting shiva (a period of mourning following a Jewish funeral) with her parents.
    Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Besides, even these governments must finally see the nonviability of a world order built on America being every country’s sugar daddy.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 26 June 2018
  • While begrudgingly accompanying her parents to a shiva, the Jewish mourning ritual, a college student encounters not only her ex-girlfriend, but also her sugar daddy.
    Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021

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