Sentence examples for hard to be gracious from inspiring English sources

He tried hard to be gracious.

Barry Bonds, disappointed and drained, tried hard to be gracious last night.

It's hard to be gracious about The Wrong Gift -- the mustard-colored sweater for Justin the downtowner, the inappropriately racy novel for Aunt Helen.

It is a difficult thing to be gracious about.

"It's really hard to be a gracious winner.

But it was hard to be uniformly gracious when categories include other wacky awards like best villain (Streep for "Into the Woods"), and best WTF moment (Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen for "Neighbors").

Sellers tries to be gracious.

He's learned to be gracious".

Mr. Obama took pains to be gracious.

Yes, Navy tried to be gracious.

Merkel can afford to be gracious, though.