graceful

Preposition: in

• defeat: It is not easy to be graceful in defeat; I know that only too well.
• movement: They are light and graceful in movement with a firm muscular frame.
• way: They're often graceful in the way that Bacon himself was graceful.

Modifies a noun

• degradation: With look ahead map based support some graceful degradation could be provided.
• spire: The village church of St James features a graceful spire which can be seen for some distance on the approach to the village.
• swan: Two looks like a swan - imagine a large graceful white swan arching its beautiful neck.
• curve: The original pedestrian bridges on the motorway all follow graceful sweeping curves.
• arc: His sword slid in a graceful arc out of its scabbard.
• bow: Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow!

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: Orchard Pig stands out as a particularly graceful piece, full of the music of hidden rhyme, and assonance; a true charm.
• so: The dancers were so graceful and very very talented.
• very: Louise dances beautifully around the stage, she is a very graceful mover; surely a legacy of her Arts Ed training.
• yet: His abandoned yet graceful Court was just the place for Voltaire.
• incredibly: The extraordinary X-UFO is an incredibly graceful flying machine that's so revolutionary even the boffins at Area 51 would be agog!
• not: Others cannot; their owning, is not graceful.

Used with adjective complement

• look: She looks so graceful taking a sip of her cappuccino, taking care not to burn her lips and tongue.
• seem: But even well-intended software changes that seem graceful at first glance might reveal quirks or hassles during extended use.
• feel: Even at considerably less, the wind flies through your hair and even the clumsiest oaf can feel graceful.
• become: Learning to be consciously aware of your movements in everyday life is variety of meditation which might help you to become more graceful.
• appear: Greene reflected upon the fact that he doesn't appear overly graceful, hacking away with his stubby, tho authentic, sword.