Sentence examples for be gracious about it from inspiring English sources

Just be gracious about it.

We expect women to submit to its incontrovertible veracity with equanimity and shame, and we expect men to be gracious about it and try not to gloat.

(When the serving of unfit food is simply an unintentional lapse, it seems best to be gracious about it — there's usually something edible somewhere on the table — but it is better still if the non-believer anticipates the objection).

If I get really angry about something, I'm not going to tweet about it and if I play a mini-game and end up losing, I'm going to say congratulations and be gracious about it.

"I realised that you are never going to be at the top for ever," she wrote, "so you had better enjoy your time there and be gracious about it".

But, in the spirit of the New Year, why not be gracious about it?

"I'm Bob, from downstairs!" She didn't, I could tell, but was gracious about it, especially for a teenager.

It was incredibly rude of Monica to gloat about her stair technique following my tumble, and I took offense, but I was gracious about it, so she did not notice.

He was gracious about it.

Thankfully, he was gracious about it.

He's gracious about it and explains that the line polices itself really, but it's also clear he commands a lot of respect.