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
No masterpiece arises unbidden and unprecedented from the mind of its creator, although popular mythology prefers this interpretation to the more complex reality.
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.
It all came back unbidden, she said, as she was playing with her own daughter.
From Los Angeles Times
Lyrical scraps would flash unbidden, like hallucinations, in the decades to follow.
From New York Times
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