unbidden

Example Sentences

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No masterpiece arises unbidden and unprecedented from the mind of its creator, although popular mythology prefers this interpretation to the more complex reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

It all came back unbidden, she said, as she was playing with her own daughter.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

Getting a Doan's Bundt cake from Cruise unbidden reinforces the recipient’s high-level social status.

From Salon • May 7, 2024

Lyrical scraps would flash unbidden, like hallucinations, in the decades to follow.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2024

Then, unbidden, the last words she’d spoken to him came back to him: We can hope—after she'd told him hope was worthless.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix