I'd rather age ungracefully, kicking and screaming. From Wordnik.com. [Rocky's Final Round] Reference
Caked with mud, I splashed ungracefully into the water. From Wordnik.com. [Promise of the Wolves] Reference
Her ribs, so ungracefully bared, rose and fell rhythmically. From Wordnik.com. [A Share in Death] Reference
But the whole shebang came unplugged and landed rather ungracefully. From Wordnik.com. [DIY Geekery. « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference
Now Davad rather ungracefully took her arm and hauled her to her feet again. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
Thereafter only the fit were chosen, and very ungracefully did they respond. From Wordnik.com. [Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women] Reference
Now she sat down ungracefully, flat on the floor, her legs bent awkwardly under her. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
An expletive came from the floor, as Septimus slid down ungracefully from his chair. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
While she cannot win, she's ungracefully refusing to accept that she is going to lose. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Clinton: Hillary-Obama Ticket Would Be "Almost Unstoppable Force"] Reference
Reluctantly, ungracefully, Otera clambered down out of the freight car and came forward. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
The MYSTERIOUS STRANGER cheerfully kills or cripples most of them but kind-of ungracefully. From Wordnik.com. [High Fantasy War Games.....] Reference
I quietly jimmied open the window and ungracefully heaved myself through the narrow opening. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Spellmans] Reference
I believe Mr. Hickman treads no crooked paths; but he hobbles most ungracefully in a straight one. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I was tangled in my long T-shirt, so I sat up rather ungracefully and brushed my hair out of my face. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted Honeymoon] Reference
This time they had to do their worst for it, and were asked to wear it as ungracefully as they could. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
But now that the Dr.'s son has ungracefully and prematurely pulled out, I'm leaning back toward Petro. From Wordnik.com. [God, Guns, and Gays] Reference
Someone had phoned who wanted science fiction from a certain range of years which had aged ungracefully. From Wordnik.com. [Reality is the tribute vice pays to virtue] Reference
The frog clambered heavily to the edge of the sagging lily and dumped itself ungracefully into the water. From Wordnik.com. [True Names]
I would think that months of being without him is worth throwing him out, ungracefully, and with no notice. From Wordnik.com. [Lieberman Calls Dems The "Democrat Party"] Reference
I tell you, truly and sincerely, that I shall judge of your parts by your speaking gracefully or ungracefully. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
Once, when my husband dunked a cookie into a glass of milk, I asked ungracefully, Why do you dunk your cookies?. From Wordnik.com. [chocolate hazelnut biscotti | smitten kitchen] Reference
The camels, after ungracefully tanking up on water, brayed in protest at the little whips that stung their hide. From Wordnik.com. [The Welkening] Reference
Dylan Ratigan's simple demand that she answer the question, which she couldn't, sending her off the show ungracefully. From Wordnik.com. [Taylor Marsh: No Thrill Up Dylan Ratigan's Leg] Reference
A word from the white man brought the other coloured man from his horse, and Hornblower slid ungracefully from the mule. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
It will be great fun to watch him flap around for a few more months, before he falls, ungracefully, out of the limelight. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Poll: Americans think Sanford should resign] Reference
TPM will drop their obsession with Hillary in about a week, when she bows out ungracefully from her Titanic of a campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary-Backer AFSCME's Montana Mailer: Brought To You By "Your Union"] Reference
Arabella, who was sitting at work, rose on beholding a stranger — a little confused — but by no means ungracefully so. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
How long would the fat, ugly Brunnhilde stand talking to Siegmund and the woman who lay so ungracefully between his knees?. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Diane behind the head: a curtain of short close plaits escaping from the bunch, falls upon the shoulders, not ungracefully. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
I think I bore myself not ungracefully in the Cabinet, in the field too, so long as I took my father's logic without question. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
"I complained to Speaker Klopper about this and Klopper called him in and made him apologise, which he did very ungracefully.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Well, this cold has obviously shut down my funny bone, so I'm going to bow out of this entry about as ungracefully as possible. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
I think that's the only way to defuse the risk that Hillary desides to lose ungracefully, which at this point almost seems likely. From Wordnik.com. [Vilsack says it's over] Reference
He soars into the heavens, and then, as if his wings were suddenly clipped, he walks ungracefully and with difficulty upon the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
We know that Harold Ickes is eager to argue the point in front of microphones, where he has ungracefully laid the blame squarely on Penn. From Wordnik.com. [Dylan Loewe: Civil War in Hillaryland] Reference
"Whew!" exclaimed Nat, falling over an ottoman that Dorothy had been lately sitting on, and landing very ungracefully at his mother's feet. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays] Reference
High heels can leave you ungracefully hobbling by the end of the evening. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
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