How to Use grace note in a Sentence

grace note

noun

• But her grace notes weren't enough.
  — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• Flavors of wild herbs and juicy berries provide the grace notes.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• There are a lot of in-between notes — grace notes and movement.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
• But the image of Trepanier was all beauty with grace notes of strength.
  — Dvorameyers, Longreads, 5 June 2019
• These are the grace notes that make Dark Winds such a special show.
  — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026
• Eggers spent years writing this book, and his own cameo near the end is a warm and modest grace note.
  — Michael Lindgren, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
• Segments succeed each other with few grace notes and little flow.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018
• There is infield dust, a summer grace note, clinging to the skirt of my favorite couch.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• Yet the episode still has time for quieter, subtler scenes, serving as welcome grace notes.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 28 July 2024
• So minty on the nose, with cedar, sandalwood, spearmint, and a savory grace note to the mountain berries.
  — Brian Freedman, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• While Jones is musical, her blue note always hits harder than any grace note.
  — New York Times, 17 Sep. 2021
• The balanced home is an animal grace note—one of a great many across both the human and the non-human world.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024
• Nolte, Hawkins, and Barbaro all add respective grace notes to these stock crime-thriller parts.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
• The leather notes from the nose ride back in for a final flourish on a finish that is sweetened up with a grace note of toffee.
  — Brian Freedman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• The grace note here is the ají, a condiment common to every Colombian household.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• The line serves as both a poignant epitaph for Klee and a beautiful grace note for this affecting film.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
• As usual chez Linklater, adroit touches and modest grace notes are scattered all about.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019
• The menu devotes a section to vegetables, some of which incorporate meat as a grace note.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
• Perhaps even more compelling are the grace notes from men who might be thought to harbor resentments toward Hodges.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 24 June 2019
• An anecdote from Shostakovich’s last years adds a grace note to the tortuous history of the Fifth.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
• These aren’t just grace notes designed to create cultural specificity.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2018
• That's a grace note often missing from summer blockbusters but, thankfully, is found swirling all around Twisters.
  — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 10 July 2024
• Somewhere in all of that, 13 Reasons Why found room for one more #MeToo grace note.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 19 May 2018
• Visual grace notes are as important as the imposing first impression.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
• Shipka finds a few vulnerable grace notes to play that augment her empathetic drive.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
• But the closing moments backstage with the company dancers embracing each other is a fitting grace note.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2021
• His razzing of The Problem With Jon Stewart was the best grace note on the piece.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
• For so long, the fields and courts and rinks of play have offered a particular kind of grace note, a place to wash off the grime of daily life, if only for a few hours.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2020
• Many of her essays conclude on an unexpected grace note, a shimmering that casts both new light and a subtle shade of doubt on what came before.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• Her presence adds a valuable grace note, contributing to the film’s surprising optimism.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022