GRACE in a Sentence

Learn GRACE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
242 example sentences for GRACE, such as:
1. There but for the grace of God, go I.
2. Joanna has natural grace and elegance.
3. Pride and grace dwell never in one place.
4. Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
5. She has the natural grace of a born dancer.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GRACE
grace
 n.  a sense of propriety and consideration for others
 v.  make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  But Gerald had known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  She quickly brought order, dignity and grace into Gerald's household, and she gave Tara a beauty it had never had before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  The inner grace from which these signs should spring, she never learned nor did she see any reason for learning it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  They all waved and called to her as they went by and she tried to respond with a good grace, but it was difficult.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Tom and the lazy long-legged twins with their love of gossip and their absurd practical jokes and Boyd who had the grace of a dancing master and the tongue of a wasp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  When the soldiers were too ill to go on, and there were many such, Scarlett put them to bed with none too good grace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  I can't help you, Scarlett, except by learning with as good grace as possible to be a clumsy farmer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  She sat upon it with as good grace as possible, wishing her skirts were in such condition that she could dance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  She swallowed her anger with poor grace and tried to assume an expression of pleasant dignity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  Pitty, for once, took a hint, although with none too good grace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
12  So she swallowed her wrath with poor grace and pretended indifference.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
13  And with a bright nod to the couple on whom she had intruded, Miss Bart strolled through the glass doors and carried her rustling grace down the long perspective of the garden walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
14  It was as though she had stepped, not out of, but into, Reynolds's canvas, banishing the phantom of his dead beauty by the beams of her living grace.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
15  But her grace was impervious to hints, and invited or omitted as she chose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Many of us do stupid things in our youth, but we should have the good grace to admit them.
2  Ageing's one saving grace is you worry less about what people think.
3  He agreed that he was wrong with a good grace.
4  She has the natural grace of a born dancer.
5  There but for the grace of God, go I.
6  Joanna has natural grace and elegance.
7  Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
8  No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace, as I have seen in one autumnal face.
9  Pride and grace dwell never in one place.
10  The story of the universe is a mythic drama of creativity, allurement, relation, and grace.
11  For a generation of ballet goers, Rudolf Nureyev might exemplify the ideal of masculine grace.
12  To forgive is the ultimate grace and is in the best tradition of Jesus who taught to turn the other cheek.
13  Miss Ingram had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano.
14  With all her forgetfulness of God, God still remembers her; showing that her redemption is altogether of grace.
15  I spent about an hour and a half dropping the hoop, while I watched Kacey twirl around the back yard, full of grace and beauty.