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
• 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
• 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
• Richard has become my Warren Beatty-worth his weight in gold-minus the tight pants and philandering.
  — Longreads, 5 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Now, she’s finally abandoned her boring job and her philandering husband, Sherman, in Santa Cruz.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• 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
• So why would anyone want to watch a series about a group of philandering, shameless, serially narcissistic people?
  — Patricia Garcia, Vogue, 14 July 2017
• Emily Blunt shines in a relatively small role as Kitty Oppenheimer, who suffered from depression and had a volatile relationship with her philandering husband, but remained fiercely loyal to him.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2023
• Genetic tests of 16 vulture families found no evidence of philandering.
  — Mary Bates, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2015
• But the children’s entertainer takes an immediate interest in Vogel, who has never forgiven his philandering father, Jerry (Chris Cooper), for neglecting him as a child.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2019
• Her father’s heart condition had made philandering a more challenging undertaking.
  — Lucinda Rosenfeld, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024