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

“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

And some reassurance that my struggle is real, and that I’m not a weak pansy looking for an excuse for not living up to my potential.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2018

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

Courtiers and ladies came to her for love potions made of heartsease, another name for my beloved pansy flower.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein