a shrinking violet in a sentence

Examples

1. When compared to Kagan directly, one of their colleagues stated, " Neither of them is a shrinking violet ".
2. OK, we get it : L . V .'s a shrinking violet, and Ray and her mother are scum.
3. Morriss played 15 seasons as an offensive lineman in the NFL, so it's obvious he's not a shrinking violet.
4. "Senator Kerry's going to find his own role, " said Reid . " Senator Kerry is not a shrinking violet.
5. Liebke, 31, who is by no means a shrinking violet, is never surprised at how she looks in fishnet stockings.
6. But she was not a shrinking violet, and she never seemed too timid to contradict her brilliant husband in public.
7. Battered and bruised though she was, at times, Billie Holiday was anything but a shrinking violet where her singing was concerned.
8. So we fictionalized the story, found Tyne Daly, who is wonderful and definitely not a shrinking violet, and here we are.
9. Hill's friends use words like " tiger " and phrases such as, " hardly a shrinking violet, " to describe her.
10. The Coliseum Commission also often seemed to savor calling the hand of Al Davis, not exactly a shrinking violet in such situations.