shrinking violet
Example Sentences
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The consensus was someone who is warm, funny, loud, brash and larger than life, with jokes for the children and adults alike but they cannot be a shrinking violet.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
They are hardy — any flower that grows next to a freeway ain’t no shrinking violet.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024
Penelope is a shrinking violet, but she’s also a romantic tired of being underestimated and cast as unmarriageable.
From Salon • May 17, 2024
As volcanoes go, Yellowstone is no shrinking violet.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022
He had named her Violet after shrinking violet when she had started seeing Dr. Payne.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
