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
A.I. isn’t pumping this weird stuff out unbidden.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023
I could not check them, for they came unbidden, and had I reached in my pocket for a handkerchief he would have seen.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
