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

I was always kind of in high school very much a wallflower, where I just was slightly outside of it and just watching, and probably through life I’m still that way.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2022

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

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022

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

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon