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 | [e-mail], 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
• At 6 feet, Michelle Wie has the sharpest, most graceful swing in all of women’s golf.
  — Emily Shippee, Teen Vogue, 11 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Across the garden, a pool and graceful pavilion are fringed by trees.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• Naysa Modi was graceful and poised, a 12-year-old from Frisco, Tex.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2018
• Her sound leads our section with powerful tone and graceful expression.
  — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
• Wade into the waves on the south end of the beach and take a swim with the graceful reptiles found gathering there.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
• The graceful coupe mixed style—just look at those gullwing doors—and performance like few cars before it, and few cars since.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2026
• Then the graceful roll of the ball with his studs smoothly took him past another two to shoot at goal.
  — Art De Roché, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
• When the new shoots appear, prune away all of them except the two most graceful.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026