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

But onscreen — especially in the close-ups Chu enjoys — there’s no spell on Earth, over or under the rainbow, that could convince me Erivo is a pigtailed wallflower.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 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

McInerny gives an especially strong performance as Sam’s dependable sister — a wallflower who delivers the most incendiary line of the play.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Dolley was no wallflower, content to spend the rest of her days living in the past.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy