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
There was no suggestion of the intimidated, the vanquished or the bidden about Konrad Adenauer's visit.
From Time Magazine Archive
"One gets the impression she has bidden farewell to art."
From Time Magazine Archive
She could not think it right to deceive her mother, but she had been bidden to mind Hannah, and Hannah wouldn’t hear of ‘Mrs. March bein’ told, and worried just for sech a trifle.’
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
