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Meanings of graceful in English
Synonyms
Examples for "fit"
Examples for "fit"
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They deserve modern, fit-for-purpose facilities that support high quality services, he said.
2
His answer was simple: Your values alignment and fit within our culture.
3
They also raised the issue of where victims fit into the process.
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He had asked questions about whether current laws were fit for purpose.
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Photo: Supplied Navi says it's a good fit for the corporate market.
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Sugar: Yes, excessive sugar, refined sugars and even excessive healthy natural sugars.
2
Rosneft has rapidly expanded its trade in refined products in recent year.
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This growing supply surge has not yet affected the refined copper market.
4
So in January this year, the MP Harry Cohen refined Mahon's question.
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Yet there is no obvious corresponding build of refined lead in China.
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However, the changing nature, and improvements in flexible work practices, may help.
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Different parts of the economy are more flexible than others of course.
3
Background: Achieving proficiency in flexible endoscopy requires a great amount of practice.
4
Ms Sage said the government should be more flexible in its approach.
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Certainly our attitude to creative freedom and game development remains fairly flexible.
1
Do you imagine she has given up communing with nimble young gentlemen?
2
Governments are anything but nimble, let alone open, in their decision-making processes.
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These nimble operators not only help students cheat their way into universities.
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Still young and nimble, John Maclean has already had two successful careers.
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Feel that you have these strong and nimble elements in your body.
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The Brazilian government needs to be more agile with this, he said.
2
Hisresearch interests include database systems, versioning systems,semantic web, and agile software development.
3
However, it was quite agile on the trail and on the rock.
4
It's a small one, an agile number with a lot of glass.
5
Traditional data centers are not as agile or flexible in meeting demand.
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The broad shoulders, strong arms, deft hands with their long nimble fingers.
2
What caught Owen's eye were the deft touches in crowded penalty areas.
3
He sets to sweeping, and is not very deft in the exercise.
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It also was a deft ploy of blame-shifting, which exonerates his government.
5
From Civil War hospital experience the father had been a deft bonesetter.
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Take the eggs, a limber knife and the salt to the stove.
2
I guess I might as well overhaul mine and limber it up.
3
His feet were also ironed, and the chain lashed to a limber.
4
It was not cold and stiff but warm and limber and fleshlike.
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Now I'm back, drawn by accounts of a lighter, more limber show.
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Redeemed himself with an almost identical acrobatic effort in the second half.
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And not, I might add, doing anything unusually acrobatic at the time.
3
We manage to stay inside only by performing some extraordinary acrobatic contortions.
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They are fast and acrobatic and fight with a savage, flesh-tearing ferocity.
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Orange red, pale blue, E flat minor, acrobatic, Ariel-like in its changes.
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The loose-jointed giant turned on his heel and left Brent standing alone.
2
He was rather tall, shaggy, loose-jointed, long-armed, broad-shouldered, and he squinted awfully.
3
We won't even need a loose-jointed confession, because we caught him black-handed.
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A loose-jointed man in clerical garb came hurrying down the avenue.
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He was-letus say-something like fourteen years old; long and loose-jointed and towheaded.
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Persephone nods, then picks herself up and breaks into a loose-limbed jog.
2
Lena sat loose-limbed, her head bowed, visibly sagging in front of me.
3
Now, right now, Jamal performs a loose-limbed, solitary dance among the stone tablets.
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In uttering those words Herr Schulz seemed suddenly to become loose-limbed and easy.
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Feeling loose-limbed and relaxed, she began running up the incline toward Warren's house.
Usage of graceful in English
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Yet there is nothing graceful about the overloaded boats heading towards Europe.
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It was a large, red brick house built along graceful Georgian lines.
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The flight of the nighthawk is free and graceful in the extreme.
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The new broom has a rare chance to suggest a graceful exit.
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The roof is battlemented, and the tracery in the windows is graceful.
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The tall, graceful figure of the girl herself stood in the opening.
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Everything seemed so right about the way she moved, so effortlessly graceful.
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Around the great drawing-room in graceful figures the gorgeous little procession moved.
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Great clouds of mist rose up in quick succession in graceful circles.
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The costume of the men on the contrary is becoming and graceful.
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Her regal bearing and the graceful way she moved caught everyone's attention.
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The soft charmeuse in her graceful gown was real and miraculously draped.
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They've long been appreciated for their intelligence, graceful form, athleticism, and loyalty.
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The contrast between the Sarajevan and the graceful Montenegrin is positively ludicrous.
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The graceful gray squirrel is scarcely less familiar than the red one.
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And I waved my mallet in the air with a graceful gaiety.
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Graceful through the time
Graceful across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Less common