GRACEFUL in a Sentence

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242 example sentences for GRACEFUL, such as:

1. I pretend my legs are graceful.
2. The flamingoes balanced gracefully on one leg.
3. The folds of her evening gown hang gracefully.
4. At least I'm much more graceful than Fern Mullins.
5. The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRACEFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
graceful
 a.  pleasing or attractive
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Though caught unawares, the blockader made a graceful bow--too graceful, thought Scarlett, trying to analyze it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  His was such an easy, graceful strength, lazy as a panther stretching in the sun, alert as a panther to spring and strike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  And, above the ruined town, the buzzards splotched the wintry sky with graceful, sinister bodies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  His pride in her beauty, her curls, her dimples, her graceful little gestures was boundless.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  I pretend my legs are graceful.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  At least I'm much more graceful than Fern Mullins.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  The story of the universe is a mythic drama of creativity, allurement, relation, and grace.
17  For a generation of ballet goers, Rudolf Nureyev might exemplify the ideal of masculine grace.
18  To forgive is the ultimate grace and is in the best tradition of Jesus who taught to turn the other cheek.
19  Miss Ingram had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano.
20  With all her forgetfulness of God, God still remembers her; showing that her redemption is altogether of grace.
21  I spent about an hour and a half dropping the hoop, while I watched Kacey twirl around the back yard, full of grace and beauty.
22  He may be stupid and mean, but his one saving grace is his humour.
23  When she stepped onto the floor each week, she was a vision in elegance, grace, and beauty.
24  The fall from grace is embodied in capitalism; man is redeemed as the proletariat rises up against its exploiters and creates a communist utopia.
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.