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 it, Streep’s character, a fading but indomitable Hollywood actress named Madeline Ashton, is reunited with her old friend, Hawn’s wallflower novelist Helen Sharp.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2024

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

After seeing JT’s parents, his father so angry and vicious and his mother as passive as a wallflower, my family’s little spats seemed like a child’s game.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine