Sentence examples for gracefully passed from inspiring English sources

By playing peacemaker at a diplomatic level Putin has gracefully passed the buck to the government in Kiev, which now stands accused of shooting down its own, unarmed, people.

To win the race, the baton must be passed gracefully and on time.

Instead it is passed off gracefully as another non sequitur.

69, passed away gracefully at her home in New York surrounded by her loving family.

I was glad for him, having passed so gracefully at last to the next world, where he'd been longing to be for so long.

LONDON — Around and around they went, gracefully shimmying and passing balls, hoops and batons to and fro.

The only allowance for nuance is on the cable-TV selector, with which we're allowed to pass gracefully from MTV into the Docker-dom of VH1 before we succumb to the droning siren call of C-SPAN.

The vocal lines are gracefully ornamented, and although no opportunity for embellishment is passed by, it never seems too much, even on repeated listening.

Although 10 years had passed since we had last spoken, the Internet helped us gracefully sew a gap of a decade and hundreds of miles.

As time passed, I too began to see the despair you hid so gracefully behind your eyes.

"You haven't changed at all!" is a compliment everyone longs to hear, eager to believe that time has passed stealthily, without a trace.So what does it mean to age gracefully?