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
Emma CooneyExamples 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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Tony talked so fast, like Scorsese on a cocaine bender, cracking jokes and losing his temper.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
That’s about half of what archetypal metal-bender General Motors garnered in the same span.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
On the way home, the little furball escapes its box, jumps out of the car after Linda gets in a fender-bender and meets a gruesome end on the street.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
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
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Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
That’s about half of what archetypal metal-bender General Motors garnered in the same span.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
On the way home, the little furball escapes its box, jumps out of the car after Linda gets in a fender-bender and meets a gruesome end on the street.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for bender
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“Bender.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bender. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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