unbidden

Example Sentences

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Images from that novel come to me unbidden when I’m alone making ramen, leaning into a cold wind or calming down my hypervigilant Doberman mutt.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

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

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

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