How to Use uninvited in a Sentence

uninvited

adjective
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  • The priest didn’t protest being uninvited to the event and asked Michael to come inside.
    — Dan Horn, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2017
  • The look in her eyes was firm but pleading, that of an uninvited guest who meant no harm.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2022
  • And so Chance blew through the landscape, feared and uninvited.
    — Karin Altenberg, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • One evening, about two weeks ago, our neighbors came to the door at about 6:30 uninvited.
    — Annie Lane, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The uninvited guests, picked to finish dead last in the Pac-12 Conference, had some fun with the whole thing.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Police at the time said a fight broke out after a group of men showed up to the party uninvited and were asked to leave.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Dozens of people were uninvited to cut the guest list down to around 80 people.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The films of Shyamalan are filled with such uninvited house guests.
    — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2023
  • With the Nest Doorbell, no one can show up at your house uninvited.
    — Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 30 July 2024
  • Split ends are like uninvited guests that crash your party, unannounced and ready to hang for a while.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The uninvited visitor surveyed the room and left in a huff.
    — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The uninvited mix can result in what seem to be the utterings of voices in one’s head.
    — Max Bertolero, Scientific American, 1 July 2019
  • As if one uninvited ghost wasn't enough, the Mauslings point out that there could be a second one going up the staircase.
    — Katelyn Lunders, Country Living, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Four of the uninvited guests were Black teenagers who became involved in a scuffle and lost their car keys.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
  • The host changed Zoom settings to lock down the meeting to uninvited guests, and took other measures.
    — Ally Marotti, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2020
  • This, Miss Manners assumes, is in the case of uninvited neighbors or friends brought by your guests.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Now, this corner of the bracket is all about the uninvited guests wearing black and orange.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2021
  • And an uninvited bear takes a nap in a Montana restroom.
    — CNN, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The party, the uninvited were told, had been scaled back because of growing concerns about the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Neil Noble sent more than 50 emails to Madson and showed up uninvited to her workplace and home.
    — Dallas News, 5 May 2021
  • Despite the security measures, an uninvited man was able to get in--and even plant a kiss on the Prince.
    — smithsonianmag.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • But Stapleton's mind wasn't on any of that in the midst of an event that somehow managed to transcend the presence of the world's most uninvited guest.
    — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • If, anywhere in the world, a big guy was bullying a little guy, Rudy would barge in uninvited to stand with the little guy.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 1 June 2023
  • Be wary of any business that comes to your home uninvited and offers to give your house a free inspection for pests.
    — Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 20 May 2018
  • The party turned into a crime scene when a group of uninvited people opened fire at the crowd after being told to leave.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Police contacted a suspect, who said the man had come to the party drunk and uninvited and made racist comments to some guests and struck him on the face first.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • But for four days, Zibull said, the church members came, uninvited, into his room in the intensive care unit.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2020
  • On the night of the shooting, a group of uninvited guests walked into a home and a fight began, Ohio authorities said.
    — Jason Hanna and Doug Criss, CNN, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Trump said Fuentes showed up uninvited at his dinner with Ye.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But a third, unplanned factor promises to throw a hitch at the hitching when a helicopter rudely shows up uninvited, as shown in the Season 3 trailer below.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Sep. 2024

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