Example Sentences

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Enjoy Garner’s wonderfully waspish essay on aging ungracefully, which manages to germanely quote both Marilynne Robinson and Dirty Harry?

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024

But the ferries were aging ungracefully long before that.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2023

But he stews magnificently, growing old ungracefully, the former hero tragically unable to let go of his ego.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022

What has befallen him, in the intervening decades, we don’t discover, but he has aged, ungracefully so.

From The New Yorker • May 25, 2015

She makes her way to her chair and footstool, turns, lowers herself, lands ungracefully.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood