wallflower

Example Sentences

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Vanderbilt, the former SEC wallflower, just posted the first 10-win season in its history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

But onscreen — especially in the close-ups Chu enjoys — there’s no spell on Earth, over or under the rainbow, that could convince me Erivo is a pigtailed wallflower.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

In 2019 Coughlan was cast as wallflower Penelope Featherington, the youngest daughter of a newly rich family during London's Regency era, in Bridgerton.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024

She’s a brainy brunette wallflower, a fraying nerve barely held together by tightly plaited milkmaid braids.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022

The entire time I thought I was an invisible wallflower, I was intimidating to Hannah Macintosh?

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon