ungracefully

Example Sentences

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Panicked, I pumped my brakes and passed over the scarred roadway — ungracefully but thankfully without injury.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2024

But the ferries were aging ungracefully long before that.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2023

He does away with “Trouble in Tahiti,” whose bitter effervescence collided ungracefully with the thorniness of “A Quiet Place,” and reduced some characters while expanding others, reinstating some arias that had been cut.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 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