graciously

How To Use graciously In A Sentence

• On November 29 -- without the fanfare graciously displayed at the MFA -- the Met received from Italy a kylix (drinking cup) from 560 to 550 B.C., which will be on loan to the museum until November 2010. Italy versus the Illicit Trade
• Would he ascend to heaven or drop ungraciously to hell?
• Why indeed would Mr Francis leap so ungraciously at distortions and seek (albeit unsuccessfully) to damage my career and undermine my livelihood?
• Fortunately, after some disagreement I was allowed (most graciously!) to pay off the amount in installments over the next 12 months.
• If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor, by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them, over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return. The Essays
• Fortunately, after some disagreement I was allowed (most graciously!) to pay off the amount in installments over the next 12 months.
• It is not enough for me to explore, to retreat graciously into the dust and floorboards of those exotic places.
• Nor do they return the cheery wave of the locals who have graciously made way. Times, Sunday Times
• Taking the argument to a highly respectable theologian, she won her point (‘'tis I that must be confuted,’ he conceded graciously).
• May the Lord graciously grant us this holy faith and the love for Christ that rises from it - a love that is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, constraining us to lean on him alone.