How To Use Gracefully In A Sentence

Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and ‘beaming,’ and is configurable to an unlimited number of options.
The biggest of the ringing bells is three tonnes and an arresting sight as it gracefully arcs round, even if we can't hear it to its full capacity thanks to our bright red ear protectors.
Conclusion: Gracefully exit your essay by making a quick wrap-up sentence, and then end on some memorable thought, perhaps a quotation, or an interesting twist of logic, or some call to action.

It was a driveway that narrowed at the road, then widened as gracefully as stemware.
But a gracefully minimal style of puppetry is also used to enhance the action. Times, Sunday Times
She circled back and settled gracefully to earth at the spot where the trampling began. A Time of War
It is a new beginning, but few expect Africa to stride gracefully into the future if the people of Africa must carry the heavy baggage of decades of corruption, conflict and misrule along for the ride.
They had been down to the Balesuna making an alligator trap, and, instead of trousers, were clad in lava-lavas that flapped gracefully about their stalwart limbs. Chapter 8
She loved the gracefully high ceiling, with its white-painted cornice.
Gracefully asprawl on the ottoman, in an attitude of almost exaggerated repose, was the boy of the woods.
Its gracefully arching branches are loaded with clusters of cool pink flowers hinting of lavender.
She aged gracefully
I watched her fingers pluck the strings gracefully, feeling her courage getting greater with the song.
I did a somersault and landed gracefully on my feet.
I could barely walk in them, let alone gracefully glide over smooth ice.
But then like millions of others who enjoyed a great young life, I decided to accept middle age, with its wrinkles and sags gracefully, and throw the bikinis away.
Again we become aware of how gracefully the sun and earth waltz with each other through the ballroom of space-time, eliciting awes and hallelujahs. Wes Nisker: Worship The Sun! (Not Just The Son)
I uncloak as I land in my yard, and stumble none-too-gracefully to a stop. Revealers
A flat, smooth, oval slab, weighing about fifteen pounds, and a stone roller six inches in diameter, worked with both hands, and the weight of the body kneeling ungracefully upon it on “all fours,” are used to triturate the holcus grain. First footsteps in East Africa
It was expedient to retire gracefully.
And aside from an overwrought moment or two, all four actors turn in gracefully subtle and passively implosive performances.
Barrel rolls, loops and dives featured as the three aircraft wheeled gracefully over the expanse of Sydney Harbour.
Her figure curves gracefully from head to toe as she stands there, the only one left clapping.
Your educated boys went at it a little more privately and gracefully, but sometimes destroyed more people in the long run.
She circled back and settled gracefully to earth at the spot where the trampling began. A Time of War
He faced serious opposition over his land tax and provincial assembly proposals, but he conducted himself gracefully. The Times Literary Supplement
He could have bowed out gracefully at any time and it looked like he might, but now this.
Matata poled gracefully; he could have been punting down the Cam as his pole pushed blue and white water lilies aside.
Despite hard times in the jazz-starved '70s, and a brief stint into the poetic ramblings of Van Morrison, the label slid gracefully into modern jazz with albums from Norah Jones and Herbie Hancock. of Music Paste Magazine
There wasn't much she could do but acquiesce as gracefully as she could. T2: INFILTRATOR
With a plausible excuse, and seeming indifference, he gracefully opened conversation with the mantuamaker as only a Parisian can. Condensed Novels
Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts.
Alex has been thrust into a more active role as a caregiver, which he's rather gracefully accepting, except for anything involving the colostomy bag.
When these circumstances occur or an especially malformed request is received, the program does not handle the condition gracefully and fails.
But the argument for localism is disgracefully mushy; we should be more rigorous about what localism means. Times, Sunday Times
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. Sydney J. Harris
The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.
AcetateInexpensive, sunfast, and drapes gracefully, but will wrinkle and has low abrasion resistance unless blended with stronger fibers. How To Avoid Housework
A beautiful two pound rainbow spent the next couple of minutes trying its hardest to imitate one of the swallows that were gracefully taking duns from the surface.
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. Sydney J. Harris
She barked her shin painfully on the "bench" rock, and her legs gave out, so that she sprawled ungracefully over it.
Adrina trod the flower-strewn path regally until she reached her father and curtsied gracefully. TREASON KEEP
The trees, which are of magnificent size, are left to grow naturally; -- the Isar, which is turned into it, flows in more than one stream with its mountain impetuosity; the lake is gracefully indented and overhung with trees, and presents ever-changing aspects of loveliness as you walk along its banks; there are open, sunny meadows, in which single giant trees or splendid groups of them stand, and walks without end winding under leafy Gothic arches. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
She is careful to look at every flower, every tree, as she dances gracefully across the heaven of green.
The cross-questioning ranged from his birth, family background, education, hobbies, language proficiency to, most disgracefully, whether he had defaulted on a mission assigned by his superiors.
We talked to top experts in the field of anti-aging medicine to find out what you should eat to help you age gracefully.
The term prairie is a misnomer in this case; instead we found a beautiful fruitful valley lying between two low ranges of hills, interspersed with groves of trees and picturesque lakes, and watered by a river winding gracefully through its whole length. 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
She wore a light blue dress with a white apron, and a ribbon, tied in a bow to match the color of her dress, hung gracefully in her hair.
Madame Tallien, who is supposed occasionally to dictate decrees to the Convention, presides with a more avowed and certain sway over the realms of fashion; and the Turkish draperies that may float very gracefully on a form like hers, are imitated by rotund sesquipedal Fatimas, who make one regret even the tight lacings and unnatural diminishings of our grandmothers. A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
The flowers buzz with insect activity before fading gracefully at the end of the season. Times, Sunday Times
Men are blind to their weaknesses or defects, and refuse to admit their faults or mistakes voluntarily and gracefully. Dr T.P.Chia
Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts.
The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.
It swirled around the ring before gracefully dropping into the hoop.
Steering clear of any trap to pin oneself down into boxes of identity which so often encumber films about marginalized communities Rees gracefully negotiates the line between heartbreak and hope to foreground the freedom found when we recognize ourselves for who we are, for who we love, and for who stands with us. Roya Rastegar: Sundance 2011 and the Sound of My Generation: Part II
she swooped gracefully
In the shadows behind him, an exquisitely dressed lady gracefully positions herself with a tambura (a stringed instrument) and begins strumming a drone.
The coranto is a difficult movement to perform gracefully. The Touchstone of Fortune
You have accepted a compliment gracefully, without trying to pretend you don't deserve it.
It seemed to look back at her mockingly, and eventually, she realized that she didn't have enough malice to withstand such devilry and took her defeat gracefully.
Each of these pieces is a plate-thin, gracefully curving slab of porcelain, about a foot wide and 3 feet long, with sharply beveled edges, resting horizontally on a squat wooden support.
The city rose in spires and pinnacles, and buildings fit in gracefully with the few trees that still grew there.
This ‘hill of the thunderbolt’ rises gracefully above the narrows of Loch Leven at Balla-chulish and is a fine looking mountain from whatever direction you view it.
THE Government are disgracefully dragging their feet over banning the deadly drug meow meow. The Sun
She was dressed in all black and her auburn hair swirled gracefully around her face and shoulders.
Along with trying to walk down the catwalk gracefully, the models also had to dance in front of the judges.
his grades were disgracefully low
He slipped, slewed, shimmied, and then gracefully rolled to a stop at the bottom.
Wonderfully ripe figs and prosciutto sliced thin as silk stockings dovetail gracefully with the help of a dense balsamic vinaigrette.
The exhibition's first gallery, with russet and black walls, is lined with customary atrium furnishings: marble statues of men and women, gracefully draped in togas, who might represent the family's ancestors; a marble table supported by four carved griffons; and frescoes depicting Dionysus/Bacchus with his golden drinking cup and the wind god Zephyrus with outspread wings. The Gracious Art of Living
In any event, the doors swing to nearly perpendicular to the body, making it possible to alight gracefully on the tall, upright chairs, rather than execute anything so low-born and cloddish as "sitting. Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car20%
They are disgracefully overpaid, an issue that is brought forth every five seconds or so, especially when it comes to the price the public must pay to watch these individuals.
He does plum - blossom - stake exercises gracefully and proficiently, and is true to his name.
From the shadows Jenna appeared, her long black hair flowing gracefully down her back.
The rocket arced gracefully into the sky.
This gracefully written summing-up celebrates the triumph of democracy over an Orwellian totalitarianism that had been touted as the wave of the future. Uncontainable
The missile curved gracefully towards its target.
These white wines, from here and abroad, sail blithely across your taste buds, wake them up, and then gracefully depart.
Mother and daughter danced for a few moments, Molly spinning on tiptoes like a dainty ballerina, Christina gracefully moving to the beat.
The sun set in a glory, and twilight arrived with gracefully gleaming stars, and a full golden moon on the horizon.
Round the guard-house a number of negro girls, with broad flat baskets on their heads, were selling fruit and cold water: they had decked their woolly hair, and the edges of their baskets, with garlands of the scarlet althaea; their light blue or white cloaks were thrown gracefully across their dusky shoulders, and white jackets, so that it was such a picture as the early Spaniards might have drawn of their Eldorado. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully
They bend their heads gracefully as they kneel each morning to pray for the welfare of the Czar and his family.
The athletic spring that had once been in my step had slid disgracefully into a slothful waddle and I was metamorphosing into a thirty-something marshmallow instead.
Collected over seven years and with a title lifted from a Radiohead opening line, this exhibit offers a keen eye into the behind-the-veil aspects of the Muslim community, gracefully capturing Flavorpill New York Events
Black and red curtains draped gracefully to the floor, resplendent with fierce twining dragons.
Instead, interrupt gracefully . Redirect the dialogue so those you can assert your point.
Bureau is an excellent draughtsman and painter, gracefully at ease on both large and small canvases.
I'd had my fill of long, bronzed limbs gracefully gliding off into the sunset.
THE Government are disgracefully dragging their feet over banning the deadly drug meow meow. The Sun
I clambered into the straw tick ungracefully and flopped down, clothes and all.
Dragging myself ungracefully to my feet, I froze again, listening for any noise, waiting for anyone to come and check what the commotion was about.
The girl rose and made a scamper for the lovely woman, but a stray leg was purposely put out and quickly the girl was sent to her knees, toppling forward to land ungracefully upon her chin.
The greatest dining establishments age gracefully, of course, like rich dowagers, without a seeming care in the world.
To suggest otherwise implies, disgracefully, that victims are somehow complicit in the violence against them. Times, Sunday Times
Whoever won would then gracefully concede defeat and accept the winners' roster.
Not letting her daughter say another word, the Queen bent down over the little girl and gracefully yet sternly took the stone from her hands.
THE Government are disgracefully dragging their feet over banning the deadly drug meow meow. The Sun
The first-person narrative moves gracefully between the literary present, in which Kear hopes to forestall Ashenden from turning out anything about Driffield and “blowing the gaff,” and the extraliterary past, when Ashenden knew the Driffields as neighbors and friends and spent many happy hours in their company. Archive 2009-04-01
Artistically ripped jeans hung gracefully around his gently jutting hips, his bright t-shirts bringing out the glitter of his eyes.
Walking over to the wall, he pulled his body gracefully up and sat down with his back ramrod straight.
Remember Dolphin Olympics, where you earnt points by gracefully backflipping around a lot? SLACKERJACK – Sydney Shark
While all eyes were on the news channel, I was just happy to watch her move gracefully around the pub sipping her Vodka and orange.
Most recently, Donald Justice gracefully elegized James in his sonnet "Henry James at the Pacific" (January, 1986). Henry James and The Atlantic Monthly
Finally, she sits gracefully on the floor on one side of a coffee table and I sprawl inelegantly across the carpet on the other.
This gracefully crafted biography chronicles the life of one the more remarkable figures of the century.
The whole party turns to look at the two gracefully descending the stairs.
Her left forearm and hand, which rest weightlessly on her lap, are gracefully foreshortened.
In recent years a number of politicians have behaved disgracefully and then compounded their offences by trying to evade responsibility. Times, Sunday Times
There wasn't much she could do but acquiesce as gracefully as she could. T2: INFILTRATOR
She is the golden voice of independent music, specifically, one that gracefully rejuvenates country music.
Smoothly and gracefully, carefully preserving the speckless integrity of her dress, never hastening her pace, and never looking aside to the right hand or the left, Miss Gwilt pursued her way toward the open country. Armadale
He claimed the KGB got revenge by sending one of their spies to Scotland to impersonate him, copying his style of dress, with orders to behave disgracefully to get him into trouble.
Porter moved gracefully among poetic meters – iambic, trochaic, anapestic – and at his best is as funny as such titans of light verse as Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker. Cole Porter in the Summer, When It Sizzles — If They Say That These Lyrics Heinous, Kick Them Right in the Coriolanus « One-Minute Book Reviews
Climbing types reach 6 feet tall and can gracefully twine up fences and arbors, or ramble over the ground.
Holywell Rowing Club's new boat passed its first test as it glided gracefully over the waters of Lough Gill on a dewy May evening last Thursday.
Deer ran gracefully between the trees.
As the camera slowly and gracefully zooms back from a tight close-up of stormy waves to the rain-drenched street where Allen's character grew up, it's as if we're transported to the time of his dreams, his memories.
Up at the lagoon of São André, returning late in the afternoon from a long walk through the dunes, I saw a girl dive from a canoe, a solitary figure that arced gracefully into the sun-silvered water with hardly a splash.
Her jet-black hair flowed gracefully as she strode toward him.
The lamp on my desk is almost a smaller version of the streetlamp outside, the same gracefully bent head, the same bubble of electric light harnessed and fastened to a hood.
One hand held gracefully to his breast the parson makes his bow, his sharp civil features enwreathed in the most disarming of smiles. Sterne's Great Game
Her Jackie O façade cracks, and Betty drinks too much - stumbling hotheadedly into the bathroom to avoid handling herself ungracefully. Cinema Blend Feeds
The four, irregular rhomboid canvases of Kelly's Blue Black Red Green gracefully fill one 45-foot wall.
His hands raced frenetically and gracefully up and down the fingerboard, offering now a nimble arpeggio or a powerful scale pattern.
I love to see occasionally," he adds, "a man from whom the usnea (lichen) hangs as gracefully as from a spruce. Oldport Days
She was a somewhat plain woman, her former slenderness surrendering gracefully to the greater girth of middle age and childbearing.
It may offend our species' sense of self-importance, but when a thunking great hunk of rock comes hurtling out of space, to splat this planet like an egg, it is time to admit gracefully that our number is up.
Out of the window, I could see Jonah jogging ungracefully towards our block, all elbows and knees in a tragically unhip white vest, and I realised I'd had a lucky escape.
The Billickin gracefully withdrew with this parting speech, and from that time Rosa occupied the restless position of shuttlecock between these two battledores. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
His black coat trailed after him gracefully as he went about greeting regular attendants to his event.
A gracefully curling wave base bears aloft a pair of dancing dolphins, while overhead, a frosted-glass shade softly gleams with gently colored images of these frolicsome creatures at play.
Two green hairstreak butterflies, gracefully viridescent, dance past on a soft wind that sifts through reeds, sets waving the tall golden flower stems of bog asphodel, and silky white plumes of cottongrass that has colonised the old peat-diggings. Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
A beautifully played nine-iron pitched once and then rolled gracefully into the ninth hole for an ace that shot the Irishman to the top of the leaderboard.
Soldiers seemed to be dropping the second as she waved the staff, moving gracefully around the dock.
But these days, there seems to be more mileage in bailing out, gracefully, if possible, and sparing yourself the media's slings and arrows.
He turned down the challenge gracefully with a slight nod of approval.
Men are blind to their weaknesses or defects, and refuse to admit their faults or mistakes voluntarily and gracefully. Dr T.P.Chia
Floating high above the clouds, she saw birds glide gracefully around her.
Bending down gracefully, she snapped a thick reed from the ground, and tied it around her mass of curly hair.
The Italian greets me with great courtliness: first relieving me of my burdens, then bowing gracefully, his lips remaining just a hair's breadth above my extended hand.
The parents, rather the separate human entities that sired these kids, behaved disgracefully. Easy Come, Easy Go! Geddit? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. Sydney J. Harris
He was true to his word and bowed out gracefully after an ill-tempered special general meeting in Edinburgh.
When she was finally ready, she walked gracefully down the stairs and floated toward the door.
Because my misaligned pelvis is spreading about as gracefully as a giraffe on ice skates, I hurt a lot. 2008 January « A Bird’s Nest
Formal pedestrian promenades along either side are gracefully paralleled by double rows of live oak trees.
With one last wave, the siren gracefully fell off of the side and into the depths below, disappearing into the shadows of the sea.
Among the pleasant pictures of memory is that of Thomas Blake as he appeared after he had changed his civilized clothes for a Brook Farm tunic of blue plaid, a "tarpaulin" straw hat and a neat broad rolling shirt collar of large dimensions that gracefully tended towards his square shoulders. Brook Farm
She sits _gracefully_; They live _happily_ and _contentedly_; we employ the verbs _sleeps, sits_, and _live_, in an active sense. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
The leatherwork took eighteen months from initial meetings to final installation and, now, four years later, it has aged gracefully. Times, Sunday Times
I watched them waft in the breeze before settling gracefully into the verdant green grass between my boots.
I sink gracefully into a sitting position on my bed.
She departed with the tennis racquets, walking gracefully off the court and leaving me sitting on the bench wishing the earth would open and swallow me up.
Flopping ungracefully out of the tub, he paddled to shore.
When this happens, I place her pot in a large footed container so her flattened branches can droop gracefully over the side without hindrance.
Their reward was to be paid highly and then retire gracefully and anonymously, with a state honour or two, to a place in the country, secrets kept and views unrecorded.
In recent years a number of politicians have behaved disgracefully and then compounded their offences by trying to evade responsibility. Times, Sunday Times
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. Sydney J. Harris
The flamingoes balanced gracefully on one leg.
His book is jam-packed with facts, but they are so gracefully integrated into the text that it's only when you come up for air that you realize you've been learning all along, about oceanography (the 100,000 cells of the smallest phytoplankton "would occupy approximately a teaspoon of water"), exploration, ichthyology, fishing (the author is a dedicated fisherman) and even art history. The Atlantic and Its Warm, Blue River
Her slender body glided gracefully, never once bending the weakened branches.
The painting gracefully combines the classical ideal of stability with Romanticism's restless play of unresolvable tensions.
Two green hairstreak butterflies, gracefully viridescent, dance past on a soft wind that sifts through reeds, sets waving the tall golden flower stems of bog asphodel, and silky white plumes of cottongrass that has colonised the old peat-diggings. Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
Monday what the leading _figurante_ is to the opera or ballet, and dances about as gracefully as the hippopotami described by Dr. Livingstone. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
She felt her arms, stronger than before from the sword practice with Doriel, gracefully hold back the old lecher who was now fascinated by her bustline.
The missile curved gracefully towards its target.
The ghost got up gracefully and at once started doing standing pirouettes, the linen whipping up in errant waves sinusoidal, sending ripples of air circlets, crowning the room. Hey, So This Is What LSD Feels Like
Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts.
Her dark blonde hair was scraggy and flyaway and her face told a story of beauty aging gracefully.
Scarcely less bizarre was the performance of Dwayne Smith, disgracefully absent the previous day, but who now came in and defied doctor's instructions to nurse his strained side.
A robe of white, confined loosely to her waist by a vari-colored sash, which drooped gracefully to catch up the folds in front, clung softly to her figure in sylphid revelation of the matchless proportions it could never conceal. The Flaw in the Sapphire
The stately swan glides gracefully on the pond.
At the edge she paused, sitting with her feet dangling in the water, then she slipped gracefully down, disappearing immediately beneath the surface with barely a ripple.
Men do not often grow gracefully older with their aging partners, but lust after what they used to have - which you were still having.
Samantha and Todd share a compact space that provides a chair and computer station for each of them at a gracefully curved, solid cherry desk.
Each of the players was a skilful soloist, and they each gracefully merged their individual talents to create tight flowing ensembles.
His body spun round in the air gracefully and he brought the spearhead round quickly.
He believes that the tabloid press has behaved disgracefully.
With an artist touch and a t-square I arranged lunchmeat at perfect right angles with the corners of my bread while gracefully spreading just the right amount of condiments atop this work of art.
Whoever won would then gracefully concede defeat and accept the winners' roster.
He ungracefully plonked himself into the nearest chair which squealed loudly in protest.
Again we become aware of how gracefully the sun and earth waltz with each other through the ballroom of space-time, eliciting awes and hallelujahs. Wes Nisker: Worship The Sun! (Not Just The Son)
Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts.
The average web surfer is very careful to NOT click on affiliate ads, no matter how relevant they are to the content on the site and no matter how gracefully they get blended into the content. gregoryt Says: Its official Match.com Abandons Paid Dating… « The Paradigm Shift
She buys bags of nuts for them and throws them out in great handfuls that arc gracefully through the air and drop on the grass with the patter of tiny nut projectiles.
And then playfully he shunts me with his shoulder, making me step ungracefully into the wall so that even the waiter standing aside holding a stack of dirty plates has to suppress a smile.
A gracefully arched rococo hall, resonant with the sound of violins, its gilded mirrors lit by a bevy of crystal chandeliers. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
She plays tennis gracefully.
The cathedral's white towers climb gracefully into the sky.
Tempo changes flow gracefully from one to the next, and bright, angular guitar lines are balanced with genuine fist-pumping moments of distortion and riffage.
Thus speaking, Sir Piercie Shafton knelt down, and most gracefully presented to the nostrils of Mary Avenel a silver pouncet-box, exquisitely chased, containing a sponge dipt in the essence which he recommmended so highly. The Monastery
But she is very strong and she runs gracefully and quickly, skipping off the surface. Times, Sunday Times
From the explosive beginning, fighter sharks zoom like supersonic aircraft through shoals of fish that gracefully and miraculously reform again and again in tight protective circles.
This gracefully crafted biography chronicles the life of one the more remarkable figures of the century.
The victim was pregnant, but gracefully so, like the gravid Madonna in a Renaissance painting. TROPIC OF NIGHT
Drawing on the functional spirit of the wash house, new parts are executed in taut, Kahnian planes of russet brick and sensuous copper which will patinate gracefully and gradually over time.
One hundred feet long, it narrowed gracefully from a base ten feet in diameter to a needle-sharp diamond point. Archive 2010-03-01

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