Sentence examples for gracefully declined from inspiring English sources
Harold Wilson offered him a peerage, which he gracefully declined; he returned to his newspaper with the additional post of assistant editor.
Meanwhile, the 1930s campus of ocher buildings by Gino Peressutti, a significant work of Italian Modernist design, gracefully declines in a landscape of cypresses, palms and fiberglass trailers.
There there's the "amazing" fall in fertility rates across the world ("the absolute minimum hope of survival is a gracefully declining population").
It is a necessary, short-term, intermediate pain to pay for the absolute minimum hope of survival, which is a gracefully declining population, because if you don't do that you will have a rapidly imploding population one day.
To make a real difference anywhere, she says, she has to learn to gracefully decline.
Gracefully decline offers, shift a few weekday plans to the weekend, and revel in the joys of spending time in your space, your comfort zone, the place that makes you feel most mindful.
He responded gracefully, generally declining to talk about it and recording a rather somber — and sometimes excruciatingly sad — album called "Tough All Over" (MCA Nashville).
Adjusting gracefully to its declining importance in a new global order might give European power a purpose for years to come.
But he declines to go there gracefully.
The people in charge are themselves often young and inexperienced in the art of management, they say, and are so used to devoting all their energies to relieving the stresses and strains of fast growth that they do not know how to cope with decline gracefully.
