Example sentences for: gracious

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

  • Dutch and Flemish: Rembrandt’s cheerful Self-Portrait with a Toque, his beloved Hendrickje Stoffels, also portrayed nude in Bathsheba Bathing; Van Dyke’s gracious, dignified Charles I of England; among scores of Rubens’ works, his tender Helena Fourment.

  • Fust labels my view, Canutian... more gracious than the jargonal, Knutty.

  • The bridge across to Ile St-Louis leads to a blessed sanctuary of gracious living, its quiet streets lined by elegant houses and mansions, long popular with the city’s affluent gentry.

  • Given the state of her health at the time, it was gracious of Kael to entertain this chucklehead for even a minute--a mistake she probably won't make again.

  • The scene evokes the gracious life, even if it doesn't quite translate to the real world: As dog owners know, the family pet--if it fetches the newspaper--is as likely to shred it as to deliver it.


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