GRACEFUL in a Sentence
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242 example sentences for GRACEFUL, such as:
1. I pretend my legs are graceful.
2. There but for the grace of God, go I.
3. Joanna has natural grace and elegance.
4. He gave a graceful bow to the audience.
5. Pride and grace dwell never in one place.
2. There but for the grace of God, go I.
3. Joanna has natural grace and elegance.
4. He gave a graceful bow to the audience.
5. Pride and grace dwell never in one place.
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Meanings and Examples of GRACEFUL
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graceful
a. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
a. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but, withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how to handle them.
2 There was no one there so handsome, thought Scarlett, as she marked how graceful was his negligent pose and how the sun gleamed on his gold hair and mustache.
3 Long graceful ropes of ivy and grapevine and smilax were hung everywhere, in looping festoons on the walls, draped above the windows, twined in scallops all over the brightly colored cheesecloth booths.
4 Again he had made a graceful remark, the kind of compliment any gentleman would pay under such circumstances, but he did not mean a word of it.
5 Though caught unawares, the blockader made a graceful bow--too graceful, thought Scarlett, trying to analyze it.
6 His was such an easy, graceful strength, lazy as a panther stretching in the sun, alert as a panther to spring and strike.
7 And, above the ruined town, the buzzards splotched the wintry sky with graceful, sinister bodies.
8 His pride in her beauty, her curls, her dimples, her graceful little gestures was boundless.
9 Meanwhile he cast agonized glances in the direction of Miss Bart, whose only response was to sink into an attitude of more graceful abstraction.
10 Now it had been Selden's fate to have a charming mother: her graceful portrait, all smiles and Cashmere, still emitted a faded scent of the undefinable quality.
11 He seemed to see her poised on the brink of a chasm, with one graceful foot advanced to assert her unconsciousness that the ground was failing her.
12 Forming about it and influenced by it, as mediaeval villages gathered about the castle, she saw a new Georgian town as graceful and beloved as Annapolis or that bowery Alexandria to which Washington rode.
13 I pretend my legs are graceful.
14 At least I'm much more graceful than Fern Mullins.
15 She looked demure and pretty, and made a graceful picture in her blue cashmere dress and little blue hat, with a plaid shawl drawn neatly about her shoulders and a clumsy pocket-book in her hand.
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 She was slender as a willow - and equally graceful, equally erect.
2 She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves.
3 I remember her appearance at the moment - it was very graceful and very striking: she wore a morning robe of sky-blue.
4 She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag.
5 He gave a graceful bow to the audience.
6 The tall graceful form of a woman appeared at the top of the stairs.
7 Many of us do stupid things in our youth, but we should have the good grace to admit them.
8 Ageing's one saving grace is you worry less about what people think.
9 He agreed that he was wrong with a good grace.
10 She has the natural grace of a born dancer.
11 There but for the grace of God, go I.
12 Joanna has natural grace and elegance.
13 Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
14 No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace, as I have seen in one autumnal face.
15 Pride and grace dwell never in one place.