ungraceful

Example Sentences

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That and the company’s ungraceful name, an acronym for American Family Life Assurance Co.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

"Is there an ungraceful way to age? We don’t have an option of course. No one has an option about aging, so it’s not a positive or a negative thing, it just is."

From Fox News • Jul. 2, 2021

“He certainly exceeded what our expectations were going into the season,” Ausmus said earlier this month, around the time his team’s ungraceful fall out of playoff contention made Robles’ appearances increasingly rarer.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2019

It was an ungraceful tumble back into civilization — and probably good practice for returning to the rough waters of non-Culebra life.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2015

Elaine had done the ungraceful thing as usual Guenever, in similar circumstances, would have been sure to grow pale and interesting—but Elaine had only grown plump.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White