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shrinking violet

NOUN
  1. someone who shrinks from familiarity with others

How To Use shrinking violet In A Sentence

  • But if anything's clear after examining the life of the Pulitzer prizewinning author of The Color Purple, it's that she's no shrinking violet. Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White
  • I can't imagine why a dynamic young woman like her is marrying a shrinking violet like him.
  • An influential player on the American singer/songwriting scene, Ani Di Franco is no shrinking violet.
  • None of them is a shrinking violet. Times, Sunday Times
  • Representing the O'Hara Foundation in Britain, improbably, is a spoiled, bratty young girl, Scarlett O'Hara (?!?), who spends most of her time being obnoxious or putting the moves on Ray, who proves to be quite the shrinking violet ( my voice-over is being done by a woman, okay? Archive 2007-11-01
  • In this company, the potted venison and wild boar terrine was a shrinking violet.
  • I can't imagine why a dynamic young woman like her is marrying a shrinking violet like him.
  • I can't imagine why a dynamic young woman like her is marrying a shrinking violet like.
  • I can't imagine why a dynamic young woman like her is marrying a shrinking violet like.
  • He followed with a montage of euphemisms applied to Rahm by a pantheon of talking heads, who described him as "bombastic" and "brusque," said he "isn't afraid of breaking a little china," and "isn't a shrinking violet. On 'Daily Show,' Stewart Nails Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Politics
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