plural benders
1
: one that bends
2
: spree
hungover after a weekend bender
3
baseball, informal
: curveball
… throws a nasty bender in the zone …—
Tim Kurkjian
Tim Kurkjian4
or bender tent British
: a simple shelter consisting of a framework of branches covered with a tarpaulin
The teenager had left to live in a bender, a home-made shelter in the woods …—Emma Cooney
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Examples of bender in a Sentence
He went on a bender and was drunk all weekend.
didn't remember a thing after the all-night bender
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Jeff’s vision for the New Era game seems to be to dilute the opportunity for strategy and politics as much as possible and replace it with a weeklong bender at Foxwoods that comes with a voucher for unlimited pigs in a blanket.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
The big bender was the key to Morton’s mid-career reinvention.
—Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
When Nora’s on a drunken bender in London, for instance, the sound team wove in the sounds of waves and wind, throwing in incongruous and asynchronous sounds to mimic fragments of memory snapping to the surface.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
The dedicated mom kicked off her football bender in Tampa to watch Jason and the Eagles before traveling almost 1,300 miles to Kansas City to watch Travis and the Chiefs.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
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Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
The big bender was the key to Morton’s mid-career reinvention.
—Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
When Nora’s on a drunken bender in London, for instance, the sound team wove in the sounds of waves and wind, throwing in incongruous and asynchronous sounds to mimic fragments of memory snapping to the surface.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
The dedicated mom kicked off her football bender in Tampa to watch Jason and the Eagles before traveling almost 1,300 miles to Kansas City to watch Travis and the Chiefs.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
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“Bender.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bender. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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