How do you use the word "grace" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "grace" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "grace": From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. Lola danced with grace.

Grace Meaning

/ɡɹeɪs/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounCharming, pleasing qualities.

nounA short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.

Sentence Examples

From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

Lola danced with grace.

She moves with the natural grace of a ballerina.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

deck decorate beautify

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She moved with such ____ that everyone watched in awe.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ballerina moved with incredible ____ and poise as she performed the challenging solo on the stage.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful. The word displaced the native Middle English held, hield (“grace”) (from Old English held, hyld (“grace”)), Middle English este (“grace, favour, pleasure”) (from Old English ēst (“grace, kindness, favour”)), Middle English athmede(n) (“grace”) (from Old English ēadmēdu (“grace”)), Middle English are, ore (“grace, mercy, honour”) (from Old English ār (“honour, grace, kindness, mercy”)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it." — 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations:

"I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing." — 1783, Hugh Blair, “Critical Examniation of the Style of Mr. Addison in No. 411 of The Spectator”, in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres:

"The Trill being the most usual Grace, is usually made in Closes, Cadences, and when on a long Note Exclamation or Passion is expressed, there the Trill is made in the latter part of such Note; but most usually upon binding Notes and such Notes as precede the closing Note." — 1683, John Playford, An Introduction to the Skill of Musick: In Three Books, page 47:

"With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'." — 1990, Claude de Bèze, translated by E. W. Hutchinson, 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, University Press, page 153:

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed vpō me, was not in vaine: But I laboured more abundantly then they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me:" — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 15:10:

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