Example Sentences

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The sisters — 15-year-old July, full of fears and superstitions, in thrall to wild, unbiddable September, the elder by 10 months — are left to their own devices.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2020

The online wife is unbiddable, like an escaped llama or a trickster god.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2019

The notoriously unbiddable crown prince was finally persuaded he had to come up with his own narrative or risk further, potentially crippling, damage to his own and his country’s reputation.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2018

I have quibbled with some of the central London think-tank's assumptions in the past, but it's decent, assiduous and unbiddable.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2015

"Faith, sir," continued the woman, beating time with her hand in the air; "faith, sir, it is not aisy for a poor woman to manage unbiddable childer."

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin