How to Use graceful in a Sentence

graceful

adjective
  • There was no graceful way to say no to their offer.
  • He has become a very graceful dancer.
  • His writing is clear and graceful.
  • She was a graceful young woman with delicate features.
  • Picture the arch of your foot, that graceful curve that spans from the ball to the heel.
    — Talene Appleton, menshealth.com, 2 June 2023
  • The duchess seemed more than amused by the graceful greeting.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Her throat was like an egret’s, long and graceful and smooth.
    — Rachel Heng, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • Some of them are not very graceful, but all of them are adorable.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • As a bonus, Lee tossed in a graceful handstand at the start of the routine.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 17 Nov. 2021
  • In the most graceful sections of her book, Brooks achieves that, too.
    — Danielle A. Jackson, Vulture, 21 May 2021
  • The rhythmic moves were as graceful as in our mind’s eye.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Soft and slightly wavy, this bob with windswept bangs has a retro and graceful look.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The artist achieves that, but the results are more graceful than brutal.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • With graceful bubbles and a silky mouthfeel, lemon and pear dance on the palate.
    — Emily Cappiello, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • As a florist rose, it was not bred to have a graceful shrubby form with easy-care traits.
    — Benjamin Whitacre, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The prospect is doubly sad when the player in question is one of the sport’s most graceful.
    — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 11 June 2019
  • But he was built like a freaking dump truck, and was about as graceful.
    — Alexander Darwin, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2021
  • And her ideas and concepts are as bold as her brush line is graceful.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
  • Evans brings a glove and shags balls in the outfield, graceful as always.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Marcus made quick work of the sweet treat and Bill swept up the paper plate in one graceful arc.
    — Hazlitt, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Even the most graceful and godlike among us are prone to pratfalls.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The graceful way to handle this is to undertake a slow fade.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2023
  • The hip jerks, arm sweeps and knee lifts appeared graceful, but to her, the six women in front of her looked out of sync.
    — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Your graceful moves on the dancefloor will remain in our hearts.
    — Natalie Duddridge, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • San Diego has had two of the most graceful divers — Greg Louganis and Tatis. ...
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Balance, for me, is more like a dance, and not always a graceful one.
    — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 30 May 2021
  • Perhaps your eye is drawn to the tall and graceful giraffe or the sly cheetah.
    — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2019
  • My lungs were hot and my legs scoffed at my brain’s orders for graceful speed.
    — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Certainly, the words graceful or athletic do not come to mind.
    — Ernie Cowan, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • There was something inexplicable in its graceful movement and grandeur of scale that drew me in.
    — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 20 Apr. 2025

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