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Example sentences for: violets

How can you use “violets” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

As for those shrinking violets Matalin and Carville, Prudie has a hunch they have knockdown drag-out fights about their different affiliations.
2 Are women by nature shrinking violets, innately repulsed by war, incapable of violence?
As comfy as it is to be led from "two, four, six, eight" to "smash the state," it is kind of the "Roses are red, violets are blue" of crowd inciting.