How to Use shrinking violet in a Sentence

shrinking violet

noun

• He's no shrinking violet when it comes to competition.
• Step aside, shrinking violet, this is a season of the bold and the brilliant.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2022
• At 7 feet tall and 3 feet wide, the tree is no shrinking violet either.
  — Courtney Thompson, CNN Underscored, 3 Dec. 2019
• But in the hands of Maggie Smith, the Dowager Countess was no shrinking violet.
  — Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country, 29 May 2022
• With regard to size, the Grand Cherokee L is no shrinking violet.
  — Karl Brauer, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• These were clothes for street style snappers—not shrinking violets.
  — Vogue, 16 Aug. 2018
• The contradiction between a man anxious to wreck shop in the Western world and the shrinking violet that was about to meet Putin was striking.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• The kids, who are no shrinking violets in general, were pretty shy with them, But the Clooneys kept engaging them.
  — Justin Bishop, Vanities, 25 Mar. 2018
• These days, civic discourse is not for shrinking violets.
  — George Will, National Review, 13 Jan. 2018
• The United States, though, is no shrinking violet and has lobbed back its fair share of insults and innuendos.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2020
• This was not a group of ladylike shrinking violets. ...
  — Amanda Blanco, courant.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• These are images not of shrinking violets but women engaged with the world and one another.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 19 May 2018
• These aren't the shrinking violets or breathless ingenues.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 23 May 2018
• Jonathan Adler is never one to be a shrinking violet—especially when that most wonderful time of year rolls around.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 6 Dec. 2022
• Maria stops at a charmless Nevada hamlet built around a Walmart and meets a young shrinking violet of a Walmart employee named James.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• Brendel, who would be responsible for making calls at the line, is no shrinking violet.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 20 Oct. 2017
• As a result, Biden—whose tactile campaign style makes Bill Clinton seem like a shrinking violet—spent 174 days without doing a single public event.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
• Desperately hoping to move up the food chain at Culture, now called Cult, Anna, a classic shrinking violet with a short, natural ’fro, meets with Zora, equipped with stellar ideas and stats.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2020
• Rush seems determined that Cordelia be no shrinking violet, and that’s a sound decision, but giving Cordelia a declamatory quality is not.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
• No shrinking violet she, her adventurousness is illustrated by her eighth day hot air ballooning journey through the Loire Valley in France with Howard.
  — courant.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Few people have ever accused Naomi Campbell of being a shrinking violet.
  — Danielle Stein Chizzik, Town & Country, 2 Feb. 2017
• Fox, never known as a corporate shrinking violet, intends to promote Fox Weather during football telecasts on its broadcast network and via Fox News.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 Oct. 2021
• Most people who wade into politics and public service aren’t shrinking violets.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
• Gruen, never a shrinking violet, predicted his centers — Eastland opened in 1957 — were important beyond shopping, and would change the thinking of city planners, economists, architects and the American public.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 30 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024