How to Use pander in a Sentence

pander

1 of 2 verb

• And why the whole thing has felt like such a hot, pandering mess.
  — Vulture, 8 Mar. 2023
• People would still be tempted to pander to fear and anger to try to get retweets.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2022
• Even with its prime location, the restaurant doesn’t pander to the crowds.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
• 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
• People were fussed with the bait-and-switch of Lina Khan, who was clearly nominated to pander to the left.
  — WSJ, 23 Nov. 2021
• Art has to pander to the caveman and cavewoman within us.
  — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 24 June 2021
• 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
• But so far, nothing about 60+ suggests the show is trying to pander to younger eyeballs.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2021
• 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 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
• 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
• The ruling class of senators and generals, who pander to the crowd, are no better.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2019
• The Russian left interpreted it as a right-wing satire, while the right accused Turgenev of pandering to the left.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• The question pandered to the crowd, eliciting applause, hoots, and whistles.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• For Henderson, that just shows Hunter isn't willing to pander.
  — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• 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
• This isn’t about following trends or pandering to the masses.
  — Anto Dotcom, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• Lamb has a long history of pandering to far-right causes.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• It’s that this film seemingly treats Austen fans with disdain while attempting to pander to them.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 27 July 2022
• The suspect was booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on charges of pimping and pandering.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
• The promoters pander to greed and promise tax savings in excess of the investment.
  — Schuyler Moore, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• Some may have liked it, others may have seen it as pandering to the Miami audience.
  — Aric Chokey, sun-sentinel.com, 28 June 2019
• The pandering symptoms of sequelitis are full-blown here.
  — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
• Victims of Alabama politicians who pandered to the very worst of human nature for votes and power.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 15 Sep. 2023
• If repayment for that enthusiasm is a healthy dose of pandering, where’s the harm?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2023
• The irony was that Close, who died Thursday at 81, never really wanted to pander to those kinds of responses.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
• Miller, caught in the gears of that system, is alternately prodded and pandered to and misled and misbelieved.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2019
• Ever since then, the movies have struggled to balance the desire to pander to fan nostalgia with the need for coherent forward progress.
  — al, 30 Oct. 2020
• Angel Ortiz Diamond, 31, was charged with one felony count of pimping and one felony count of pandering.
  — Alexa Díaz, latimes.com, 17 June 2019

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pander

2 of 2 noun

• More like a pander-stretch on a non-issue in an election year.
  — John Baer, Philly.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Its initial emphasis on high fashion—and the pander to the one-percent with the five-figure versions—seemed a bit tone-deaf.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 27 June 2019
• Unlike Trump, Napoleon did not deny the plague, pander false cures, or ignore the suffering around him.
  — Robert Klitzman, STAT, 25 June 2020
• Let other film festivals fret about the future of the movie business and pander to the all-powerful streamers.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
• Critics say this is a pander to Donald Trump, but Trump lost in 2020 under either standard.
  — Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
• Critics say this is a pander to Donald Trump, but Mr. Trump lost in 2020 under either standard.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 May 2021
• The giant pander-fest that is the Democratic primary is just getting started.
  — Michael Tanner, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
• This is America’s political game, blame and divide, point and pander.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• Trump announced his steel and aluminum tariffs in the campaign’s final days, the most microtargeted pander to Rust Belt voters imaginable.
  — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 14 Mar. 2018
• Rather than being greeted as an honest attempt to reach out to a voting group that overwhelmingly dislikes him, the taco bowl post was widely mocked as an obvious, ham-fisted pander.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 18 May 2016
• While the media and politicians pander to ideological activists, most Americans share common-sense values.
  — Larry Hogan, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2023
• More like a pander-stretch on a non-issue in an election year.
  — John Baer, Philly.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Its initial emphasis on high fashion—and the pander to the one-percent with the five-figure versions—seemed a bit tone-deaf.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 27 June 2019
• Unlike Trump, Napoleon did not deny the plague, pander false cures, or ignore the suffering around him.
  — Robert Klitzman, STAT, 25 June 2020
• Let other film festivals fret about the future of the movie business and pander to the all-powerful streamers.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
• Critics say this is a pander to Donald Trump, but Trump lost in 2020 under either standard.
  — Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
• Critics say this is a pander to Donald Trump, but Mr. Trump lost in 2020 under either standard.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 May 2021
• The giant pander-fest that is the Democratic primary is just getting started.
  — Michael Tanner, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
• This is America’s political game, blame and divide, point and pander.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• Trump announced his steel and aluminum tariffs in the campaign’s final days, the most microtargeted pander to Rust Belt voters imaginable.
  — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 14 Mar. 2018
• Rather than being greeted as an honest attempt to reach out to a voting group that overwhelmingly dislikes him, the taco bowl post was widely mocked as an obvious, ham-fisted pander.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 18 May 2016
• While the media and politicians pander to ideological activists, most Americans share common-sense values.
  — Larry Hogan, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024