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
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
Often, now, the tune came unbidden to her head: Oh!
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
