How to Use philander in a Sentence

philander

verb

• Burns, a philandering white man with a taste for brawls and a smart tongue, is often—and more than some might like, perhaps—thought to embody that past.
  — Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
• No word yet if exceptions will be granted for the side chicks of philandering congressmen.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 4 Oct. 2017
• One case involved a wealthy doctor's philandering wife who was spending most of her time at their posh resort condo with her young daughter.
  — Virginia Hanlon Grohl, Country Living, 23 May 2017
• The writer reckons with the charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
• The narrator of this novel is a writer who has lost her best friend, a philandering teacher and writer, to suicide.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
• Richard has become my Warren Beatty-worth his weight in gold-minus the tight pants and philandering.
  — Longreads, 5 June 2019
• About deluded coaches and philandering teammates and practice-field punch-ups.
  — Leander Schaerlaeckens june 8, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
• While training for a spot in the next space mission, Lucy is charmed by Mark, who has a reputation for philandering.
  — Gina Martinez, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• On the same day, JoJo, a wife in her 60s, is trying to win her philandering husband back from his mistress.
  — Emily Bond, menshealth.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• The book is narrated by a woman left to raise Renata, the dull and doomy teen-age daughter of a philandering husband who has abandoned them.
  — Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
• Benjamin, the engaged, philandering filmmaker in Rapture, may be that kind of person.
  — Haley Mlotek, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
• More than 20 years later, a middle-aged Ash Williams spends his days drinking, philandering, and working that same dead-end job.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 10 July 2026
• So why would anyone want to watch a series about a group of philandering, shameless, serially narcissistic people?
  — Patricia Garcia, Vogue, 14 July 2017
• Mark’s brother, Gerry, is a philandering real-estate agent who sets up an anonymous blog to complain about the local government.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• Columnist — and birder — Ted Johnson shares the story of the philandering backyard blue jay who delivered a lesson on life.
  — Drew Goins, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• Ella’s mother Claire (Rebecca Hall) still loves her philandering husband and is more inclined to forgive him.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Dec. 2025
• Dozie, who, along with his older brother, Nonso (Enyinna Nwigwe), works for his philandering father, is a bit of a playboy.
  — The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
• Philip Seymour Hoffman played him on Broadway as a near-psychotic, his philandering very much to blame for the fall of his elder son, Biff.
  — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
• Her father’s heart condition had made philandering a more challenging undertaking.
  — Lucinda Rosenfeld, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• This fictional Hillary ultimately turns down the cheater’s proposal and sets off on her own, far away from Arkansas and philandering Bill.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 18 May 2020
• Genetic tests of 16 vulture families found no evidence of philandering.
  — Mary Bates, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2015
• The idea of unskilled volunteers naively traipsing through Africa sparks the type of bad press usually reserved for Kardashians and philandering politicians.
  — Ken Budd, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• In the video accompanying the 1998 track, the two singers battle over a philandering lover originally played by Mekhi Phifer.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2017
• Where Baldwin is the square-jawed, right-stuff astronaut trope made manifest, Stevens embodies the hard-drinking, philandering, hotshot fighter pilot.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2019
• And her philandering absentee father, Eddie (Woody Harrelson), has decided to pop his head back into her life and beg forgiveness.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
• Even the party guests have back stories, among them the handsome, philandering doctor (Roland Lane) and his stoic wife (Marlaina Powell), who put him through medical school.
  — Anita Gates, New York Times, 30 May 2017
• Maxine’s allies are a gay pool boy (Ricky Martin), her (philandering) airline pilot husband (Josh Lucas) and his aunt, who at one point pushes her off a yacht in the middle of the ocean.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
• There’s the charming, philandering bartender Romeo and his sharp, suffering wife Teresa, not Balzanos but family enough to manage the bar during Sunny’s boyhood.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
• Specifically by unpacking Yasmin’s issues with her philandering father.
  — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 8 June 2026
• Released in 1958, Attack told of a wealthy heiress, fresh from a stint at a mental institution, who is turned into a giantess and then deals with her philandering husband and his no-good, money-grubbing floozy.
  — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026