GRACIOUS in a Sentence

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107 example sentences for GRACIOUS, such as:

1. He was gracious enough to thank me.
2. She is a lovely and gracious woman.
3. He conducted himself in a gracious manner.
4. He has not yet learned how to be gracious in defeat.
5. Lady Caroline was gracious enough to accept our invitation.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRACIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gracious
 a.  beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor
Classic Sentence: (98 in 7 pages)
1  Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  And, instead of turning her against him, it only made her more timidly gracious toward him because of her indignation at what she fancied was a gross injustice done him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  The old portraits on the walls had been dignified and gracious and had looked down upon guests with an air of mellowed hospitality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  And whenever she did not need him, she was gracious enough to spare him for the use of other ladies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
5  Mrs. Merriwether, torn with indignation and insult, furious that she had to take this favor from a man she disliked and distrusted, was hardly gracious in her thanks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
6  Kennicott asserted that Westlake and McGanum and their contaminated families were tricky, but Carol had found them gracious.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  Carol saw, though she did not admit, that Olaf was not only more beautiful than her own dark child, but more gracious.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  But Carol could discover no more pictures nor interesting food nor gracious voices nor amusing conversation nor questing minds.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
10  Suddenly bubbles seemed bursting beneath my closed eyes; like vices my hands grasped the shrouds; some invisible, gracious agency preserved me; with a shock I came back to life.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
11  He was the only being present who possessed sufficient candor to admit that he was not listening to these gracious performances for the first time that summer.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  "Well, Dodo, you've done pretty well, this time," said his young master, with a more gracious air.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  Legree had been drinking to that degree that he was inclining to be very gracious; and it was about this time that the enclosures of the plantation rose to view.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
14  For many days Cassy had been unusually gracious and accommodating in her humors; and Legree and she had been, apparently, on the best of terms.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  Their presence always gave her pain, and she hardly knew how to make a very gracious return to the overpowering delight of Lucy in finding her STILL in town.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
Example Sentence:
1  Lady Caroline was gracious enough to accept our invitation.
2  She is a lovely and gracious woman.
3  He has not yet learned how to be gracious in defeat.
4  He conducted himself in a gracious manner.
5  Sibyl was the most gracious, helpful, and generous person to work with.
6  He was gracious enough to thank me.
7  He actually went on to praise John McCain for giving a gracious concession speech.
8  The government has said clean public toilets are the hallmark of a gracious society.
9  Felix remains as gracious and humble as ever in spite of incredible success and worldwide recognition. Her motto: “Medals are won in training.”