Example sentences for: gracefully

How can you use “gracefully” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With its broad chimney, fine-grained limestone frames around the doors, and gracefully tapered casement windows, the house is one of the more handsome architectural specimens of the French colonial era.

  • Its outdoor tables are a perfect vantage point for admiring the gracefully curving piazza, an exemplary piece of open-air urban theater designed in 1816 by Giuseppe Valadier, architect to Napoleon.

  • Is it possible to write in rhyme and meter more gracefully and plainly than Ben Jonson (1573-1637) does in "His Excuse for Loving"?

  • Kurtz points out that the interview gracefully negates Hillary's previous denials (real, Freudian) of her husband's affairs, and might prevent her "vast right-wing conspiracy" sound bites from being played ad nauseum during the Senate race.

  • In 1973 Doubleday wisely reissued The Young Visiters , and it got a rave review by Alan Friedman in The New York Times . He called it “a tiny novel that begs comparison with giants: Tolstoy's War and Peace , Flaubert's Sentimental Education , and Lawrence's Women in Love may be bigger, but The Young Visiters too manages to contain and display, more gracefully than the giants, an entire civilization.”


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