adjective
definition
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
example
She is a graceful dancer.
definition
Gradual and non-disruptive.
Examples of graceful in a Sentence
With slow graceful steps, he pulled her into dance.
Alex was lithe and graceful – light on his feet.
He rode as if he were part of the horse, his lean body swaying with the stride of the graceful animal.
The graceful Immortal was in the study, hands folded in his hands, as if waiting for him.
They were so graceful, their muscles rippling under shiny coats as they moved.
Her dress lifted out, revealing long graceful legs.
He dismounted in one graceful movement and started unsaddling Diablo.
His ghazels, which are written with great elegance and finish, contain many graceful and original ideas, and the words he makes use of are always chosen with a view to harmony and cadence.
With sure graceful movements, he danced her around the room.
It has a graceful tapering spire 402 ft.
Moving from one position to the next should be graceful and smooth.
The frame is light, slender and graceful.
It flashed, silver glinting off its graceful curve.
Ipomopsis - Graceful biennials from California, thriving in light, dry, and warm soils in the milder districts.
Lindeni has more pointed leaves, a deep blood-red color, is compact and graceful, and bears pinching back and pegging down to any height.
Isopyrum - A graceful little plant allied to the Meadow Rues, I. thalictroides has prettier white flowers, and is valuable for its Maiden-hair Fern-like foliage.
Jalap Plant (Exogonium) - A graceful perennial trailing plant, none more beautiful among climbing plants than E. purga, and of its hardiness there can be little doubt.
Rush-leaved Flag (Iris Juncea) - A lovely bulbous Iris, graceful in habit and with bright yellow flowers of a delightful fragrance, whilst it can be grown almost as easily as the English Irises.
Missouri Flag (Iris Missouriensis) - A Rocky Mountain kind, graceful, and with delicate purplish-blue flowers, which are valuable to cut in the month of May.
Yellow-banded Flag (Iris Ochroleuca) - A stately vigorous Flag and an old plant in our gardens, the foliage slender, about 4 feet long, and coming up in a graceful twist.
P. r. arenaria is a very graceful plant, found wild on sandy seashores.
The flowers come as narrow, slender white spikes of graceful effect from June to August, and the leaves take glowing tints of orange and crimson in the autumn.
L. clethroides, a Japanese species, is a graceful plant, 2 to 3 feet high, with long nodding dense spikes of white blossoms, and the leaves in autumn of brilliant hues.
The trusses are small but exceedingly graceful, composed of flowers 2 inches or so across, white or rosy-lilac, freely spotted with dark red on the upper petals.
P. Colensoi is another fairly hardy kind from the mountains of New Zealand, with a spreading and graceful way of growth and narrow leaves.
They are graceful in growth, showy in flower, and have highly-colored fruits, which add much to the beauty of the garden in autumn.
Phyllostachys Heterocycla Viridi-Glaucescens - A most elegant and graceful Bamboo, growing to a great height-nearly 18 feet at Shrubland.
Carmichaeliae is much like some of the Brooms, hence its name, the leafless, graceful shoots studded late in June with small bright rosy flowers in clusters towards the point.
It makes a graceful, birch-like tree of 50 to 60 feet in New Zealand, with small leaves and clusters of whitish flowers.
Quaking Grass (Briza) - A graceful family of grasses, American and European.
It is hardy, and of distinct and graceful habit.
The effect of the numerous flowering shoots and the grey foliage is good, and the plant is worth a place in the choicest garden for its graceful habit and long season of beauty, and the value of its slender panicles for cutting.
Its tall and graceful flower-stems rise to a height of 5 or 6 feet, and wave in the wind, but, though slender, are so tough and wiry that they are never injured like the much stronger-looking stems of the Pampas Grass.
Spignel (Meum) - M. athamanticum is a graceful fine-leaved perennial, dwarf in habit, 6 to 12 inches high, free in ordinary soils, and hardy.
Spinovitis Davidi Thomsoni - A pretty and neat-growing species climbing by its tendrils, and of graceful effect upon pillars and pergolas.
Add in the sapphire glass watch crystal and Swiss made movements, and keeping track of time on the go has never been more graceful.
A high school football player is made into a graceful figure skater.
I really like the look of wood - especially when it looks this graceful.
Graceful, coordinated and a pleasure to watch.
She jumped off in her graceful way, a ballerina in a black fur coat.
She followed, again struck by the graceful way he rode.
The writings of Erskine, especially his published letters, are distinguished by a graceful style, and possess originality and interest.
He was always assiduously graceful, always desiring to present his idea, his image, his rhapsody, in as persuasive a light as possible, and, particularly, with as much harmony as possible.
The date palm is a beautiful tree, growing to a height of from 60 to 80 ft., and its stem, which is strongly marked with old leaf-scars, terminates in a crown of graceful shining pinnate leaves.
A curious polygonal church of the i ith century at Rieux-Minervois, the abbey-church at St Papoul, with its graceful cloister of the 14th century, and the remains of the important abbey of St Hilaire, founded in the 6th century and rebuilt from the 12th to the 15th century, are also of antiquarian interest.
In 1679 the university was established in the old Cloth Workers' Hall, a building dating from 1317, with long arcades and graceful pillars supporting the upper storeys.
Above is a graceful balustrade behind which is a lofty roof, and at the angles are towers perforated for the passage of the light.
The forms of Assyrian pottery, however, are graceful; the porcelain, like the glass discovered in the palaces of Nineveh, was derived from Egyptian originals.
Among the first wild shrubs and trees that are met with are the chilca (Baccharis Feuillei), with a pretty yellow flower, the Mutisia acuminata, with beautiful red and orange flowers, several species of Senecio, calceolarias, the Schinus molle, with its graceful branches and bunches of red berries, and at higher elevations the lambras (Alnus acuminata), the sauco (Sambucus peruviana), the quenuar (Buddleia incana), and the Polylepis racemosa.
It has a lofty campanile, surmounted by a graceful octagonal upper storey.