Pandering is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Pandering meaning
present participle and gerund of pander
Using Pandering
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of pander
- In the example corpus, pandering often appears in combinations such as: pandering to, of pandering, by pandering.
Context around Pandering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pandering
- In this selection, "pandering" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gross, shamelessly, thus, yet and staged stand out and add context to how "pandering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accusations of pandering that this and accused of pandering to with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pandering" sits close to words such as accessorized, acs and adoptions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pandering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pandering at its finest typical of the NFL. (8 words)
Or was he just pandering to red state conservatives who loathe the left coast? (14 words)
Continuing them and irresponsible pandering with short term populist measures will indeed be insanity. (14 words)
Anyway, somebody should tell McGuinness that his pandering to backward Americans—who, various political-science studies suggest, amount to no more than a third of the population—would be more believable if he were to edit his LinkedIn page. (39 words)
And these prominent wins, all lining up in the same year, led to accusations of pandering—that this was a singular, token attempt at “apologizing” for underrepresentation, after which things could return to the status quo. (36 words)
In the last few days, she has not helped her case, as leader of the opposition, by pandering to the president and announcing she gave him an account of her visit, as House president, to China. (36 words)
Or was he just pandering to red state conservatives who loathe the left coast? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
After all, this isn’t the first time a Massachusetts senator has been busted for open and gross pandering.
And these prominent wins, all lining up in the same year, led to accusations of pandering—that this was a singular, token attempt at “apologizing” for underrepresentation, after which things could return to the status quo.
Ministers have been alarmed by the approach taken by some schools in pandering to pupils who claim to have changed gender.
One of the most impressive feats of Miyazaki’s films is how organically they espouse the filmmaker’s politics without pandering or proselytizing.
Or was he just pandering to red state conservatives who loathe the left coast?
Pandering at its finest typical of the NFL.
Quite aside from its technological capabilities, the success of ChatGPT is an impressive feat of marketing — and I hope it heralds a new wave of campaigns based not on pandering but on authenticity.
Scottish Conservative MSP Sharon Dowey said: “Humza Yousaf is shamelessly pandering to the republican base of the SNP support.
Some have suggested that any criticism of Durham’s gang prevention programs comes from those who just don’t understand the hood, thus pandering to both white liberal and Black middle class abandonment guilt.
The department was accused of pandering to with official guidance that tells Whitehall to refer instead to specific 'hostile actors'.
Aaron writes this off as cheap pandering, yet in Aaron and Jane’s story about the returning soldier, the Rockwell painting is used to achieve the same goal – to evoke emotion.
After all, the issue does not involve pandering to ecclesiastical privilege, but in positive commitment to follow in Christ’s footsteps.
Anyway, somebody should tell McGuinness that his pandering to backward Americans—who, various political-science studies suggest, amount to no more than a third of the population—would be more believable if he were to edit his LinkedIn page.
As you might expect, this obvious pandering is all being provided courtesy of Planned Parenthood.
Continuing them and irresponsible pandering with short term populist measures will indeed be insanity.
If you don’t like Orbán, of course, you are likely to see posts like these as pandering, staged, and ridiculous.
In the last few days, she has not helped her case, as leader of the opposition, by pandering to the president and announcing she gave him an account of her visit, as House president, to China.
It's bittersweet to recognize that the 2024 "Frasier" is only really good when it's more obviously pandering to our collective nostalgia, but that is, for better or worse, the case.
Jeffrey Wright leads a note-perfect cast in this biting comedy satire as an author pandering to a white appetite for Black trauma in an impressive debut from former journalist Cord Jefferson.
The ban was also ultimately unsuccessful in stopping for-profit tutoring: a black market of private tutors emerged, pandering to parent’s desperation to improve their children’s test scores, with much more exorbitant prices.
Common combinations with pandering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pandering to 45×
- of pandering 6×
- by pandering 5×
- pandering and 5×
- as pandering 4×
- without pandering 3×
- on pandering 3×
- in pandering 2×
- just pandering 2×
- pandering but 2×