Sentence examples for being gracious to from inspiring English sources

When a writer thanks Yaddo, he's not being gracious to anybody; he's just telling the world that he went to Yaddo.

Van Buren, then secretary of state and a widower, made a point of being gracious to her, and his stock rose with the president as Calhoun's fell.

The author says that after a while you get tired of being gracious to these friends and neighbors who are making it rich: you want to hide in the bushes and wait for one of them to come out and jump on them and demand a tip.

Is God being gracious to an elect mother, they might ask, when he makes the baby she loves with all her heart the object of his "sovereign hatred" and does so, as the Augustinians say he did in the case of Esau, even before the child has done anything good or bad?

He is gracious to older women.

With umpires he was gracious to a fault.

Well could he afford to be gracious to Clegg.

I like that he was gracious to this film.

Geoghegan was gracious to the boardroom colleagues replacing him.

"They're teaching me about their world, and they've been gracious to me.

I had to be gracious to get anywhere in reconstructing the truth.