Thesaurus results for BENDER

bender

noun

ˈben-dər

Definition of bender next

as in spree

a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking didn't remember a thing after the all-night bender

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Recent Examples of bender 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 See all Example Sentences for bender

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Noun

The Los Angeles Dodgers' offseason spending spree might not be over, but their future salary commitments have risen to nearly half a billion dollars already.

— Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
In their first two playoff games, the Bills combined their outstanding running game and a shutdown defensive effort to defeat the Broncos, and a takeaway spree to get the job done against the Ravens.

— Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025