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 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

Parsnips are always, always overlooked, but this recipe will change hearts and minds about the wallflower of root vegetables.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2022

The dancing spread like a forest fire, and soon the floor was filled with couples who swayed and dipped around the Gibraltar of a wallflower, Ignatius.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole