Sentence examples for on graceful from inspiring English sources

"I remember trying to put on graceful airs -- 'Be swanlike!' my head commanded".

At one end of the square stands the town hall (1585); built on graceful columns – as if on stilts – it looks like the sort of place Caravaggio might have his cupid retire to sleep.

Both have small flowers on graceful spires of stalks that look like a puff of smoke.

The resurgent Michael Doleac made a nifty reverse layup over three Raptors, and Thomas and Travis Knight scored on graceful finger rolls.

Then there are the manta rays, the B-1 bombers of the deep, that glide menacingly through the water on graceful but threatening patrols, their barbed, poisonous tails always ready to lay out all challengers.

Some sections on "graceful exits," like short sales or deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure, guide those whose financial situations are so dire that they cannot reasonably hope to stay in their homes.

The clank of narrative machinery being hauled into place is rather too audible at the outset, before the three dovetailing plots take on a graceful momentum of their own.

Shawn Johnson and Derek Hough: For their first dance of the evening, Shawn and Derek took on a graceful Viennese waltz (which naturally involved Sarah McLachlan).

Reflecting on his roles in 28 Days Later and the "sad-sack Dublin shelf-stacker" in Intermission, Sarah Lyall of the International Herald Tribune stated that Murphy brought "fluent ease to the roles he takes on, a graceful and wholly believable intensity.

A 6-foot-8 senior, James scored 13 points in the second quarter, on perimeter shots and on a graceful fadeaway move that he seems to have perfected.

Los Angeles R&B singer Tinashe's career has been on a graceful rise since "2 On," her collaboration with rapper Schoolboy Q, hit in 2014.