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

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

McInerny gives an especially strong performance as Sam’s dependable sister — a wallflower who delivers the most incendiary line of the play.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

“I can understand how it is to feel like a wallflower when it comes to your crushes,” Fontana says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2022

I’ve always felt like I was meant to be more than an invisible wallflower.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon