pansy

Example Sentences

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Helen Litchfield, secretary of the botany section at La Société Guernesiaise, said the team's efforts in propagating the dwarf pansy meant it was no longer at risk.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The use of pansy flowers on the jerseys is meant to disrupt perceptions of hockey and gender norms by combining images of softness and femininity with the strength typically found within the sport.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2022

“There was even this period ‘the pansy craze’ where it was fashionable to have limp-wristed men in movies who may have been gay or trans or entirely outside that in movies.”

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2019

Going without a DVR demonstrated exactly how much of a pansy I am: I responded to not having DVR much the same way that 19th-century Irish responded to not having potatoes.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2011

I shoveled dirt into the dump truck; then I drove the truck over to the flower bed and dumped dirt onto a purple pansy until I buried it.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli