How to Use sugar daddy in a Sentence

sugar daddy

noun
  • She's on the lookout for a new sugar daddy.
  • One of her shadier comments was a dig at your husband being a sugar daddy.
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 6 May 2022
  • This sugar daddy isn’t stopping his spending.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
  • Might she be reconciled with the party’s host and her former sugar daddy?
    — Chris Bohjalian, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Finding the right sugar daddy and slowly building trust simply takes time.
    — Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Well, snuggling up to a sugar daddy or momma for housing has a long history here.
    — Outside Online, 18 Dec. 2024
  • On paper, a sugar daddy with money problems would appear to be an issue.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
  • Even the old sugar daddies seem wary of anything outside their rich but circumscribed circle.
    — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Jules ties together all her silky robes to scale the fire escape of her sugar daddy’s hideaway, armed with a hefty settlement to fund her art.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026
  • Sennott plays a woman who attends a funeral service with her parents and runs into her sugar daddy and his wife.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Millie has since decided against continuing to look for a sugar daddy or mummy.
    — Serena Smith, refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Learning your 15-year-old daughter has been visiting sugar daddy websites is not what any parent wants to hear.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 16 July 2025
  • Kelsey is moving into her new apartment with the help of her mom and sister, both of whom are rocked by the news that her sugar daddy is still paying just about all of her bills.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 18 May 2026
  • Any scenario where your friend would need to send money to her potential sugar daddy could be this sort of mistaken overpayment scam and is a red flag.
    — Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Knows [Ariana is] crying and decides getting drunk with a sugar daddy is better.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Jules will step away from a giant canvas to reveal an eerily prescient work of art, pack up her paints, and drive away from her sugar daddy and off into the sunset.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026
  • But probably not one including your ex-girlfriend, sugar daddy (wife and baby daughter in tow) and your parents, too.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2021
  • College football is about money now, and his school doesn’t have sugar daddies to cover $86-million buyouts.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Now police needed to find out if Sophie had actually found a sugar daddy online.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 16 July 2025
  • The new museum director, the article implied, was little more than a chorus girl with a sugar daddy.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Unfortunately for all sugar daddies in revolt, the T-shirt is currently sold out.
    — Andrea Park, Glamour, 20 Feb. 2018
  • With no sugar daddy willing to lend money to countries that have lost the market's faith, there may be no alternative to austerity.
    — Menzie D. Chinn, Foreign Affairs, 16 Aug. 2012
  • Florida has the largest per capita population of sugar daddies in the United States.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • The film’s attitude toward the demimonde of Hong Kong sugar daddies and the models who pretend to love them boils down to a cheeky and rather thoughtless shrug.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2023
  • Many might think the 28-year age gap is prima facie evidence of a sugar daddy/sugar baby relationship.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Sanders needs Alabama’s gravitas or Texas Tech’s sugar daddies.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Created in his parents’ basement—with an equally great live version filmed in their cluttered garage—the track includes raps about not being able to compete with a lover’s sugar daddy.
    — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Andrew, good-looking and glibly sophisticated, becomes a gigolo to some very rich sugar daddies in San Diego.
    — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Family gatherings are never a walk in the park, but imagine being a young woman attending a shiva just to find out that your sugar daddy is in attendance.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Sugar babies and sugar daddies exchange high-level gear for companionship in World of Warcraft.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 16 Mar. 2020

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