Sentence examples for bit of graft from inspiring English sources

The uptake is initially slow, but a bit of graft from the Olympians gets them a potential, if wobbly, cast.

That bit of graft looks like mere mischief now, as Brazil's worst political scandal for fifteen years swells to cinematic proportions.Much of it has been scripted by a single snitch, Roberto Jefferson, a rogue former government ally.

"Of course we're aiming for the top six, but there's a bit of graft to do that.

There's a bit of grafting going on, as White tries to draw lessons about race and entitlement from an experience that seems to have had little to do with either.

Where will people pretend they've worked to spuriously give themselves a bit of grafting started-from-the-bottom charm?

He copped to having received, for his efforts, a basket of free food at the grand opening — a bit of "honest graft," as George Washington Plunkitt would have called it.

Garbage that gets collected, buses and trains that take people places, cops that whack bad guys upside the head, taps that yield water when you turn them, lights that go on when you flip the switch, all lubricated by taxes and a bit of honest graft — these are what keep streets calm, voters pacified, and righteous "reformers" out of City Hall.

"It was a bit of a graft but we got there in the end with good team work," said the Irishman.

Kiran Yoliswa and Alae Ismail are two young women who aren't scared of a bit of hard graft.

One thing that is clear in "The Cliburn: Playing on the Edge," Peter Rosen's quick-moving 90-minute documentary about the 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition this year in Fort Worth, is that contestants are still trained like racehorses, with perhaps a bit of prizefighter DNA grafted in.

Unlike the innovations in "The Burn" and other earlier Aksyonov works, such passages feel less like daring, formalistic experiments than gratuitous bits of whimsy grafted onto a less-than-successful picaresque story.