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
No shrinking violet, this performer, and neither is the woman she portrays.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2022
Beal took over as the Wizards’ leader on and off the court while Wall was injured for the past two years, and Westbrook is no shrinking violet.
From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2020
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
