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How to use pamper in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb

Pamper means to treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence. Example: “He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.”

Examples of pamper by meaning

verbTo treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.

  • He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

More sentences with pamper

  • Sometimes even the most precious pamper packer princess wants to role play, hmm?2021 October 22, @PadDockDal, Twitter. From the entry pamper packer
  • As I say, we’re both out of work and both of them are still in pampers.2017, Ann O’Leary, Ilana Gabrielle Raskind, Melissa Turner, “Food Insecurity Experienced by Women Living in Poverty”, in Ann O’Leary…. From the entry pampers
  • A pampers—from where might Hudson Bay’s notoriously whimsical currents have brought it?2016, Lawrence Millman, chapter 23, in At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books…. From the entry pampers
  • The macho-ish option: For lashings of pampering, mixed with a dab of grizzle, try Argentina.2012 February 9, “Trips of a lifetime”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025. From the entry macho-ish
  • Pa had a knack for growing and he spent many hours pampering his crops.2004, Dave Stevens, My Western Roots, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry Texas tea
  • Here are best bets, from shapeups with time for pampering to rugged outdoor fun .1996, R. Alan Fox, 500 Best USA Vacations, page 88. From the entry shapeup
  • Pampers keep baby bottoms drier because they have a special stay-dry lining next to baby's skin.1971 December 17, Procter & Gamble, “[Advertisement]”, in Thomas Griffith, editor, Life, Children Special Double Issue edition, page 69. From the entry stay-dry
  • I'm making horse girl club for pamper packers.2025 August 29, @omonina.bsky.social, Bluesky. From the entry pamper packer
  • It’s the name of a small collection of word-forms with particular spellings – four of them: pamper, pampered, pampering, and pampers.2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry lexeme
  • I just can't resist showing off my pamper packing abilities!!!2024 November 13, @padded-hiker.bsky.social, Bluesky. From the entry pamper packing
  • The hypereminent gentleman who pampers his vanity by ignoring collections is not a good citizen in the profession.1917, Kansas Medical Society, The Journal of the Kansas Medical Society 1917-08: Volume 17 Issue 8, Kansas Medical Society, page 219. From the entry hypereminent
  • She did not mean to pamper herself any longer, to go without food because her surroundings made it unpalatable.1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry unpalatable
  • I pamper them babies somethin terrible.1999 Nov/Dec, E Annie Proulx, “The Blood Bay”, in Literary Cavalcade, volume 52, number 3, page 8. From the entry something terrible
  • What flower has been bred in more than three thousand varieties, and become the symbol of the gooeyest human sentimentality and pampering?1956 April, H[omer] Nearing, Jr., “The Neurotic Rose”, in Leo Margulies, editor, Fantastic Universe, volume 5, number 3, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry gooey

Meaning of pamper

  1. verb To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
  2. verb To feed luxuriously.
  3. verb To put someone in pampers (a diaper).

Full definition of pamper

Questions about pamper in a sentence

How do you use pamper in a sentence?
Pamper is used as a verb. For example: “He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.”
What is a short sentence with pamper?
“I pamper them babies somethin terrible.”
What does pamper mean?
Pamper means to treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pamper (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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