GRACE in a Sentence

Learn GRACE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

242 example sentences for GRACE, such as:

1. He gave a graceful bow to the audience.
2. The flamingoes balanced gracefully on one leg.
3. The folds of her evening gown hang gracefully.
4. The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.
5. Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRACE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grace
 n.  elegance and beauty of movement or expression; short prayer of thanks before a meal
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  But Gerald had known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  She quickly brought order, dignity and grace into Gerald's household, and she gave Tara a beauty it had never had before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  The inner grace from which these signs should spring, she never learned nor did she see any reason for learning it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  They all waved and called to her as they went by and she tried to respond with a good grace, but it was difficult.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Tom and the lazy long-legged twins with their love of gossip and their absurd practical jokes and Boyd who had the grace of a dancing master and the tongue of a wasp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  When the soldiers were too ill to go on, and there were many such, Scarlett put them to bed with none too good grace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  I can't help you, Scarlett, except by learning with as good grace as possible to be a clumsy farmer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  She sat upon it with as good grace as possible, wishing her skirts were in such condition that she could dance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  She swallowed her anger with poor grace and tried to assume an expression of pleasant dignity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  Pitty, for once, took a hint, although with none too good grace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
12  So she swallowed her wrath with poor grace and pretended indifference.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
13  And with a bright nod to the couple on whom she had intruded, Miss Bart strolled through the glass doors and carried her rustling grace down the long perspective of the garden walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
14  It was as though she had stepped, not out of, but into, Reynolds's canvas, banishing the phantom of his dead beauty by the beams of her living grace.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
15  But her grace was impervious to hints, and invited or omitted as she chose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  He may be stupid and mean, but his one saving grace is his humour.
17  When she stepped onto the floor each week, she was a vision in elegance, grace, and beauty.
18  The fall from grace is embodied in capitalism; man is redeemed as the proletariat rises up against its exploiters and creates a communist utopia.
19  She was slender as a willow - and equally graceful, equally erect.
20  She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves.
21  I remember her appearance at the moment - it was very graceful and very striking: she wore a morning robe of sky-blue.
22  She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag.
23  He gave a graceful bow to the audience.
24  The tall graceful form of a woman appeared at the top of the stairs.
25  He tried to ingratiate himself into her parents' good graces.
26  Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.
27  The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.
28  Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts.
29  The folds of her evening gown hang gracefully.
30  The flamingoes balanced gracefully on one leg.