If there is such a thing as losing gracefully, that's what the Islanders almost did tonight.
"We have not come 3,000 miles," he told them, "just to lose gracefully."
I should have learned how to lose gracefully by now, shouldn't I?
He was just too close to success to lose gracefully.
I need to know that you can lose to a woman gracefully.
John was satisfying himself that I could lose gracefully to a woman.
Violent and quick to anger, he does not suffer losing gracefully.
"I just hope we can teach him enough between now and game time that he can lose gracefully."
If I didn't stand a chance of winning, then the only option left was to lose gracefully.
That's why we're pooling our money, so Skeeve can go in there and lose gracefully.