How to Use grace note in a Sentence

grace note

noun

• But the image of Trepanier was all beauty with grace notes of strength.
  — Dvorameyers, Longreads, 5 June 2019
• Flavors of wild herbs and juicy berries provide the grace notes.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• Somewhere in all of that, 13 Reasons Why found room for one more #MeToo grace note.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 19 May 2018
• There was a grace note: The title track was nominated for song of the year.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2019
• So minty on the nose, with cedar, sandalwood, spearmint, and a savory grace note to the mountain berries.
  — Brian Freedman, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• Eggers spent years writing this book, and his own cameo near the end is a warm and modest grace note.
  — Michael Lindgren, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
• There is infield dust, a summer grace note, clinging to the skirt of my favorite couch.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• The balanced home is an animal grace note—one of a great many across both the human and the non-human world.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024
• The leather notes from the nose ride back in for a final flourish on a finish that is sweetened up with a grace note of toffee.
  — Brian Freedman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• The line serves as both a poignant epitaph for Klee and a beautiful grace note for this affecting film.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
• For so long, the fields and courts and rinks of play have offered a particular kind of grace note, a place to wash off the grime of daily life, if only for a few hours.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2020
• Kidder played the role as an update of Hildy in His Girl Friday, but with grace notes of delicate fragility.
  — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 14 May 2018
• In the case of The Boys in the Boat, a telling of true events that can feel overly cautious in its admiring distance, the surprises lie in small moments and grace notes.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• The gent also knows how to compose for a giant screen, filling set pieces with unexpected grace notes amidst the sound and fury.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
• Segments succeed each other with few grace notes and little flow.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018
• While Jones is musical, her blue note always hits harder than any grace note.
  — New York Times, 17 Sep. 2021
• Perhaps even more compelling are the grace notes from men who might be thought to harbor resentments toward Hodges.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 24 June 2019
• The menu devotes a section to vegetables, some of which incorporate meat as a grace note.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
• As usual chez Linklater, adroit touches and modest grace notes are scattered all about.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019
• The second is an amusing, if also obvious, grace note: Both names begin with the same letter.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• In a small grace note, Arnaud Erhart, the proprietor of the influential 360 restaurant, is working the floor at Frenchette.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
• The player has a few tools to vary the music, mainly different meters and their divisions into beats, tempo and the grace notes that break up the melody line.
  — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• Isbell also noted that his mother, Angela Hill Barnett, was in the house on Friday -- a warm grace note that amped up the home-state appeal.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 25 June 2023
• From the music to the prose, Jean-Raymond gave his audience a symphony of grounding bass and emotional grace notes.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
• But the response to the storm has reminded them of the strength of their culture, and its grace notes of solidarity, neighborliness and pride.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017
• The mind-warping grace notes of the first season — a black Justin Bieber, the jaw-dropping getaway of an invisible sports car — were deployed with nonchalance.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 11 May 2018
• The horn works fine Bryce Konitzer’s crazy buzzer beater last week was a grace note on a senior having a great season on the basketball court, even though baseball is where his future lies.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2018
• There's some promising grace notes here and there in Black Panther's action scenes, scenes that are thrilling for the way that actors are posed, and positioned before, and during breaks in fighting.
  — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
• Many of her essays conclude on an unexpected grace note, a shimmering that casts both new light and a subtle shade of doubt on what came before.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• But the closing moments backstage with the company dancers embracing each other is a fitting grace note.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2021

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024