Example Sentences
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While the men in the family philandered, Eunice spurned the wooing of her faithful suitor Sargent Shriver for seven years and came close to taking vows of chastity.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018
In Paris, Lulu philandered crazily with gamblers, procurers and swindlers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you remember the sundial over which Dolly and Mr. Carter philandered, the one which bore the motto— Horas non numero nisi serenas?
From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Eaton, Walter Prichard
If you had not gone and frightened her, they might have philandered on all this time, till the whole affair died of its own silliness.’
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
The collector, in white linen and canvas shoes, philandered with papers on an antique desk.
From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.
