bidden
Example Sentences
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When and if you are bidden to the journey by a POC who has granted you a brief visit to the darker side of human nature, explore safely.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2020
Christopher Meloni, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, and many others may have bidden the show farewell, but Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, and, yes, Ice-T are killing it these days.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2014
The three fathers, after 20 years, are hence bidden to a house party.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Soviet Government had for bidden Soviet stations' rebroadcasting the speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quite soon they led Odysseus under the river bank, as they were bidden; and there laid out a tunic, and a cloak, and gave him olive oil in the golden flask.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
