How to Use grace note in a Sentence

grace note

noun
  • But her grace notes weren't enough.
    — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • There are a lot of in-between notes — grace notes and movement.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
  • These are the grace notes that make Dark Winds such a special show.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Nolte, Hawkins, and Barbaro all add respective grace notes to these stock crime-thriller parts.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
  • His razzing of The Problem With Jon Stewart was the best grace note on the piece.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
  • One of the few grace notes in Dorothy’s story, and the only apology Hollywood ever gave her.
    — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • This take on the Strip blended the ranch’s existing features with neon signage, steampunk props, and plenty of dystopian grace notes.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Her mother began to drop little grace notes of encouragement into their conversations.
    — Stephen Humphries, Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2025
  • Robertson grounds both versions of Niall in a sad-eyed misery, with Bell stepping in and giving the character grace notes of humor that don’t always seem to fit the story.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
  • For Lili in her darkest hour to summon a little petty annoyance over the wrong milk substitute for her coffee is a satirical grace note in an episode conspicuously short on laughs.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 24 May 2026
  • In a sweetly surprising grace note, many of the bathrooms have colorful wallpapers with attractive bird, butterfly, animal and floral imagery.
    — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Findlay knows to stay out of the way when her actors are deep inside what’s lived-in about their situation, or when grace notes — especially the story’s real ties to the Troubles — needn’t be overstruck.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Both men stood atop Colbert’s desk as Fallon concluded his ode with a grace note encouraging Colbert to run for president in 2028.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2026
  • In heralding the occasion with this exclusive interview, the always engaging historian adds a distinguished grace note to the retrospective tone of City & Shore magazine’s 25th Anniversary Issue.
    — Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Despite that notable change, watching One Battle After Another is much like the experience of reading Pynchon, who lurches from high comedy to stomach-turning naturalism and punctuates plot-heavy sequences with little grace notes of character portraiture.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025

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