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

Too often, the belaboring rebounds and you crash back to earth as ungracefully as Peter Pan.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023

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

It took him a second to sit down on the ground next to me, and he grimaced as he landed rather ungracefully on his ass.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green