Sentence examples for defeat graciously from inspiring English sources

They accepted victory and defeat graciously.

Yet he accepted last year's perverse electoral defeat graciously.

Significantly, the ruling Fretilin party, whose candidate lost badly to Mr Ramos-Horta, conceded defeat graciously.

But in the end Ms. Boyle proved stoic in defeat, graciously congratulating her opponents.

Yet Mr Balls, just like Jim Murphy before him, took the defeat graciously and gave an eloquent concession speech.

Hardly anyone expects the Thunder to fade away, especially because of Kevin Durant, who handled the defeat graciously, if painfully.

No campaigners started conceding defeat, most graciously, others in despair.

"In Defeat, Clinton Graciously Pretends to Win," mocked a headline in the Washington Post.

My guess is that Bernie will accept defeat more graciously than Clinton did back in 2008, in fact.

Jibril had imprisoned many Hamas activists in his time, but now he acted the part of the defeated opponent graciously offering advice to his successors.

The defeated president, Goodluck Jonathan, graciously conceded defeat, acknowledging that the rule of his People's Democratic Party, unbroken since the generals gave way to a civilian government in 1999, had ended.Mr Buhari, a northern Muslim who led a coup in 1983, had fought the three previous elections in vain.