Sentence examples for replied graciously from inspiring English sources

Thomas replied graciously to Larson's joke, "Actually, I prefer this injury to being before the Committee".

"We both extended the hand of friendship," the Speaker-designate replied, graciously.

I asked Currin who influenced whom more, and he replied, graciously if a bit cryptically: "Lisa was probably there first in the fetishizing of roundness.

After the seminar was over I asked him if he would grant me an interview, to which he replied graciously "my pleasure".

She may reply graciously — or not.

After my interventions, the president graciously replied, "That woman's voice is worth listening to".

To which the golden elm graciously replied, "So lovely to be appreciated".

The author replied no and graciously pointed out that my novel had a double duke in it (seriously: he had 2 dukedoms. When some people don't have any!).

(If ever during our own childhood, my brother, sister or I referred to another child as "fat," my mother would always graciously suggest that the child had "glandular problems," to which my father would reply, "Either that or he eats like a pig").

At the end of the evening he graciously offered a few dozen words in reply, concluding with: "I am confident that with determination we will overcome".

She is surprised at the offer and declines as graciously as possible but asks why he wants to marry her - a foreigner His reply is that his red hair is considered bad luck in this part of France and no girl will marry him.