unasked-for
Example Sentences
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The design team, responding to the work’s fluidity, enjoys keeping us in the dark before ambushing us with unasked-for surprises.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
She regularly calls Maddie with unasked-for advice about finding a husband and starting a family, but doesn’t provide much in the way of a stable or steady parental presence.
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023
Thompson’s Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit was one of seven dance institutions to receive large, unasked-for funds in the most recent round of donations by Scott and her husband, Dan Jewett.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2021
But kids who were looking forward to birthday parties, swimming pools, playgrounds, and the normalcy of everyday life—the happy routine of just going to school—are learning unasked-for lessons in sacrifice these days, and it’s early.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2020
He w'as a mine of irrelevant information and unasked-for good advice.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
