Example sentences for: graciously

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

  • --Prudie, graciously

  • He was coyly gleeful about how lucky we are to toil in this chaos: to see the early snowdrops pushing up from the snow year after year or some flower graciously volunteering where you never would have been clever enough to plant it; or just to watch a couple of dragonflies having sex on a hot summer day.

  • Wilson points out the shakiness of the Southern Baptists' biblical justification for their recently announced doctrine that wives should "graciously submit" to their husbands.

  • ) Notwithstanding everyone's reluctance, Lehrman got several minutes of film that brought dozens of bit players and their world to life--the seductive Sandor Ferenczi at a caf, (he once conducted affairs with a patient and her mother at the same time), the warm and animated Princess Marie Bonaparte graciously introducing everybody to everybody else at tea parties (she later rescued Freud from the Nazis), a dashing and alarmingly radiant Wilhelm Reich (he lated invented orgone therapy).

  • The NYT off-lead is the news that the Southern Baptists, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, which counts among its adherents Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Newt Gingrich, and Trent Lott, has, at its annual convention, amended its statement of essential beliefs to include the declaration that a woman should "submit herself graciously" to her husband's leadership, and a husband should "provide for, protect and lead his family."


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