unbidden

Example Sentences

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Her focus is the life stage she dubs “the Final Fifth” that begins at age 80, and her subject is the unbidden changes—physical, social, even existential—those years can bring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

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

From Salon • May 7, 2024

And like Peter Falk’s immortal gumshoe, Elsbeth — who will insert herself unbidden into an investigation — asks a lot of questions, some merely out of curiosity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2024

So, unbidden and unpaid, Hayes proposed to Henry Van Baalen, head of the Haub family trust, that German billionaires Erivan and Helga Haub, longtime visitors to the Methow, buy Sun Mountain.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2023

It was a strange, unbidden question, and she did not ask it aloud.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry