Sentence examples for not so graceful from inspiring English sources

Believe me, on land they're not so graceful".

The ball bounced to my father, who took a few not so graceful dribbles and made an easy layup.

Be playful gently tease your friends and laugh of your not so graceful face plants.

That's the ideal, I guess, but rodeo usually isn't so graceful and smooth.

Young birds (eyasses) are most vulnerable when they are fledging – taking those first not-so-graceful flights to independence from their parents.

WHEN Prince changed his name to a symbol, in the process earning the not-so-graceful sobriquet of Artist Formerly Known as Prince, his appearance and his music didn't change significantly, but for a time he had everyone talking.

Insiders say Purcell intends to tough it out all costs for at least two more years, before slipping into a graceful, or not-so-graceful, retirement.

She was not only so graceful, but she was strong and powerful as well.

Orwell, reviewing the book for this magazine in 1948, scoffed at Greene's "cult of the sanctified sinner": "When people really believed in Hell, they were not so fond of striking graceful attitudes on its brink".

We encourage our daughters not so much to be graceful as to run as fast and as hard as our sons.

But sadly, I learned not all retrofitting can be so graceful.