How to Use bender in a Sentence

bender

noun

• He went on a bender and was drunk all weekend.
• So tourism won’t be about benders and showing skin at the beach, then?
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• The film at least mines some charm from a fender-bender as a meet-cute.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026
• 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
• Cops said Bender may have been on a bender, as he was snookered.
  — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 May 2017
• This is the snack mix that fueled the school day sugar benders of your childhood.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 8 Mar. 2017
• Getting knocked out once, or beating up random strangers on a bender for two days?
  — Steven Marrocco, MMA Junkie, 29 Aug. 2019
• In the past, Scott has gone on very public benders to get her attention.
  — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 23 Oct. 2017
• Meanwhile in the episode, Allen is on a bender of another sort.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
• This one has a mustier, eau de end-of-days scent wafting off it like whiskey vapors after a bender.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Amy Palms has been perfecting her skills as a glass bender for more than 20 years.
  — Jessica Christian, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2018
• The first day of the tournament is also sort of like going on a casino bender.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
• In my many decades of dealing with the city and state, this proposal ranks right up there as one of the all-time mind benders.
  — Donna Frye, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
• 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 what about middle-aged tourists with money to burn who want to go on a bender in Times Square?
  — Curbed, 19 May 2022
• Ronnie wakes up in a jail cell — post-bender — and after getting an earful from Det.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2019
• The rain was steady, as was the traffic, but everyone was also keeping an eye out for a junkie on a bender.
  — Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
• The big bender was the key to Morton’s mid-career reinvention.
  — Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Tony talked so fast, like Scorsese on a cocaine bender, cracking jokes and losing his temper.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
• The last season of the sci-fi drama was whiplash-inducing, and season three promises to be even more of a brain-bender.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 July 2019
• Sheen recalls an 18-hour nosebleed from one cocaine bender that caused a problem when shooting a scene.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
• Joi Gilliam, a genre-bender who also loves the stage, has been a fan of Davis since the early 90s.
  — Essence, 9 Feb. 2022
• For a man who once hurtled through the windshield of his car following a bender, this was a testimony.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
• The next scene fast-forwards to the present, where Gigi is passed out in a bed in Hollis’s house after a bender.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 July 2026
• In a City Hall famous for red tape and bureaucracy, this one is a real mind-bender.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 24 Apr. 2020
• Directed by Mia Barnes, a sneak peek at the music video captures a bender with buddies.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2022
• In his latest apology video, Wallen said that his offense was the result of a 72-hour bender.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2021
• Likewise, Lamine is not merely a creative talent, but a bender of convention.
  — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025