The phrase "at a bender" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression is "on a bender," which refers to a period of excessive drinking or partying.
Example: "After a tough week at work, he went on a bender over the weekend."
Alternatives: "on a spree" or "on a binge."
It would be an excellent start to a bender at Ina Garten's house in East Hampton.
Eventually, someone reported that he was at the bar, on a bender.
Earlier this year the attention-seeking mum passed out after a bender at the Notting Hill Carnival".
In theory, if joint liability was designed properly, errant countries would be stopped from going on a bender at other Europeans' expense.
He was in the midst of a bender at the time, but four days later took his final drink in the Jambalaya bar.
Liam was under heavy tabloid focus at the time, and on 9 November 1996 was arrested and cautioned for cocaine possession following a bender at the Q Awards.
ON 17 July 2008 in our front page article "Ron the Lash" we falsely reported that whilst recovering from an operation to his ankle Cristiano Ronaldo had "gone on a bender" at a Hollywood nightclub where he splashed out pounds 10,000 on champagne and vodka and threw his crutches to the ground and tried to dance on his uninjured foot.
Instead, Schaffer claims that while on a bender at Pat's Cocktail Lounge on Riverside Drive he gifted two guns from his 19-piece collection to drinking buddies who occasionally provided him with small amounts of cocaine, but who he did not suspect had any gang affiliation.
They are impossible to ignore, much like, in the first two weeks of the season at least, a starlet on a bender.
One wise old lady says solemnly to a young man: "I could tell at once that you were a bender, and that you would realise your destiny".
