How to Use uninvited in a Sentence

uninvited

adjective
  • But there was an uninvited guest on the call list.
    — Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2026
  • This is not the first uninvited guest in the area.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • The party takes a wrong turn when some uninvited folks come knocking at the door.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Their placid life is dismantled by hordes of uninvited guests who won’t leave.
    — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2017
  • 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 films of Shyamalan are filled with such uninvited house guests.
    — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2023
  • He was briefly dropped from country radio and uninvited to events.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Turns out some uninvited, four-legged guests were making themselves at home.
    — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Who showed up to the party uninvited?
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
  • And so Chance blew through the landscape, feared and uninvited.
    — Karin Altenberg, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • Says the man who is standing — uninvited — in the middle of my living room.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • With the Nest Doorbell, no one can show up at your house uninvited.
    — Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 30 July 2024
  • After weeks of dry skies and dust, rain feels like a blessing … until the uninvited guests show up.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The priest didn’t protest being uninvited to the event and asked Michael to come inside.
    — Dan Horn, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2017
  • Trump said Fuentes showed up uninvited at his dinner with Ye.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Dozens of people were uninvited to cut the guest list down to around 80 people.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • The voices can blur; sometimes, there’s the faint sense of an uninvited presence among them.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Now, this corner of the bracket is all about the uninvited guests wearing black and orange.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Hot water is a great way to clean sheets that are heavily soiled, to get rid of uninvited guests like bed bugs or lice, or to kill dust mites.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Hot water is a great way to clean sheets that are heavily soiled, to get rid of uninvited guests like bed bugs or lice, or to kill dust mites.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Rich Burkhardt says the lodge was hosting a private quinceañera when some uninvited guests arrived.
    — Fox 19 Digital Staff, The Enquirer, 19 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • But when two uninvited houseguests, Ryan and Claire, crash the scene, the weekend takes a dark turn.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The event was not announced in advance, save for a cryptic tweet a few days ago, possibly as a way to ward off uninvited guests.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2017

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