How to Use pander in a Sentence

pander

verb

• People would still be tempted to pander to fear and anger to try to get retweets.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2022
• The setlist on that tour also felt pandering.
  — David Harris, SPIN, 30 Mar. 2026
• The rest of this summer dud is just a pale and pandering whitewash.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
• That's not taking a moral stand, that's just pandering to the public.
  — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 14 Feb. 2020
• Even with its prime location, the restaurant doesn’t pander to the crowds.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
• Newsom should leave public health to the experts and quit pandering to a cohort of his base.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 June 2019
• This isn’t about following trends or pandering to the masses.
  — Anto Dotcom, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• But so far, nothing about 60+ suggests the show is trying to pander to younger eyeballs.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2021
• For Henderson, that just shows Hunter isn't willing to pander.
  — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• Such a candidate might be seen as pandering, or out of touch with reality.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
• The ruling class of senators and generals, who pander to the crowd, are no better.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2019
• White’s aim is to bring both of these groups closer together without pandering to either.
  — Jake Woolf, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2023
• Heru Amin Shabazz, 33, was charged with pimping and pandering, court records show.
  — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2026
• Such references could feel pandering if they weren’t executed with a tongue-in-cheek sense of play.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 22 June 2023
• Fake budgets are the tribute that pandering pays to pragmatism.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 13 Nov. 2019
• If repayment for that enthusiasm is a healthy dose of pandering, where’s the harm?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2023
• The question pandered to the crowd, eliciting applause, hoots, and whistles.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• Regardless, the planet is well past caring whether pandering politicians want to play ball.
  — Cory Oldweiler, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• The struggle was how not to pander and explain yourself but to still find stories and ways of telling [them] that people see themselves in.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Dec. 2025
• Some may have liked it, others may have seen it as pandering to the Miami audience.
  — Aric Chokey, sun-sentinel.com, 28 June 2019
• Who could have guessed that pandering to extremists while courting moderates would be a zero-sum game?
  — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 5 Aug. 2023
• Let our two major parties learn not to pander to the outlandish fringe voices because those are the very ones that sow the seeds of division.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2021
• Why would anyone attempt to pander to the voting masses with self-aggrandizing puff pieces?
  — Alfred Gough, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• The promoters pander to greed and promise tax savings in excess of the investment.
  — Schuyler Moore, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• The creators were sort of pandering to the audience and kind of vamping in a way that poisoned the show and simplified it.
  — Jonny Auping, Longreads, 25 June 2019
• Green-light rigor also means not pandering to what Netflix imagines viewers across the world want.
  — Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 15 July 2023
• In the last week or so, Fox has managed to malign poor retirees and Jews while pandering to xenophobes.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• The Giants catered to their LGBTQ fans and pandered their tails off.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
• But so far, Visions is using Star Wars as a license to dream rather than an excuse to pander.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• People were fussed with the bait-and-switch of Lina Khan, who was clearly nominated to pander to the left.
  — WSJ, 23 Nov. 2021