Example Sentences

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When Joelle Zarcone lost her mother prematurely to cancer, she found herself struggling to recreate the Sunday sauce that had graced her childhood table.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2022

Unfortunately we arrived too late to see Bevo, the live longhorn and official mascot for the University of Texas, but I felt comforted knowing he had graced these parts.

From The Verge • Apr. 14, 2022

It was the first time Wallen had graced a stage of this magnitude since the drunken outing and in the midst of a global pandemic.

From Fox News • May 20, 2021

Even so, for their new home the Obamas borrowed from the National Gallery the most sophisticated art that had graced White House walls since Camelot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2017

Then terror for thy children had graced thee; too late now dost thou rise with unjust complaints, and reproaches leave thy lips in vain.'

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil