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

The humor comes off like a wallflower at a party who is racing with so many awkward thoughts that when it’s finally time to speak, they blurt out something rude.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 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

Audiences rallied behind her relatable Toula Portokalos, a wallflower Chicago waitress who straightened both her hair and her spine despite the protests of her domineering family.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2023

Dolley was no wallflower, content to spend the rest of her days living in the past.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy