Faust gracefully declined, despite persistent questions, to say that Miami had run up the score.

Offered his choice of Africa, Sicily, or Sardinia and Corsica, Sulla gracefully declined.

But to each of these conversational overtures he gracefully declined comment.

John Kennedy offered him the London embassy-which was a logical and politically shrewd decision-but Hamilton gracefully declined.

I believe that such a candidate in these circumstances should gracefully decline to run for office.

She accepted; her brother declined gracefully, to the obvious relief of the Chief Invigilator.

We shook hands once more and I took my departure, after gracefully declining a last suggestion that perhaps we would be better off traveling together.

I looked at mine, which were rather appalling, and gracefully declined her offer of a manicure.

But she gracefully declined the offer and decided to sing for the film than composing it.

Barbara inquired about whether Maggie might also join them, but Maggie gracefully declined, saying that she had previous plans.