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Recent Examples of graceful That honest, messy middle—where ambition meets uncertainty and growth doesn’t always look graceful—has been essential in making Issa’s work so resonant and enduring. Essence, 8 Sep. 2025 Because exits in sports seldom are graceful. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2025 Adorned with Japanese flowers and trees of the season, the vase gives a dignified, graceful welcome to visitors arriving in the main entrance lobby. Isabelle Kliger, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 The new collections reimagine the classic Bird on a Rock motif, brought to life by Jean Schlumberger in 1965, and takes its design cues from a bird’s wing, as well as the layered look of a bird’s plumage, to create graceful, sculptural pieces dripping in diamonds and other gemstones. Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for graceful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for graceful
Adjective
  • For years, corporate attention has centered on young professionals, who are seen as agile, digital natives and full of potential.
    Gilda D'Incerti, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Bayrou as a centrist barely managed to walk that tightrope, Lecornu, positioned further to the right, may not be as agile.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Rows and rows of spacious houses with yards, everything new, tidy as can be imagined, with elegant transportation to and from the workplace right there—all for working people.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Posing next to Colman Domingo and Salma Hayek Pinault (who wore an elegant black Balenciaga suit dress), Moore’s glitzy look shone.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Smaller biopharmaceutical companies are nimbler and more entrepreneurial.
    Wayne Winegarden, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • A lot of emerging media seems to be prioritizing an ability to be nimble.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And part of it was that face, the sort of Adonis-like mug that tips the scales from handsome to outright pretty.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Being Birkin’s partner was an ego boost for Gainsbourg, who had never been conventionally handsome and whose heavy drinking and smoking had aged him prematurely.
    Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Jacob Elordi, unrecognizable as the creature, moves through the role with balletic grace, embodying the tragic soul of Mary Shelley’s 200-year-old story.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The film features a kick-ass soundtrack (Bill Withers, Fleetwood Mac, Donna Summer and more), balletic cinematography and has a great pace to it and some wild action set pieces.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The sharp-yet-flexible points and buildable tint leave behind a trio of micro-fine strokes that, when brushed along your arches, blend seamlessly with your natural hairs.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Before all that happened, though, there was the eight-course dinner, which went totally fine as predicted.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Buyers come here for the majestic historic villas and the joy of living in a seaside city full of culture and fabulous food (this is the place that invented pesto).
    Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The costumes, designed by Dede Ayite, were subtle and yet highly symbolic, suggesting the colloquial nature of Yoruba gods, or the epic, majestic nature of our brothers.
    Essence, Essence, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Hawkins misplaced horns and spikes, and some of his robust four-legged dinosaurs were actually gracile bipeds.
    Yannic Rack, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Elephant bones by comparison are gracile, slender—they’re like twigs compared to mastodons.
    Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022

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“Graceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graceful. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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