How to Use pander in a Sentence

pander

verb
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  • 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 | Jarchibald@al.com, 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
  • Such references could feel pandering if they weren’t executed with a tongue-in-cheek sense of play.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 22 June 2023

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