elbowroom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of elbowroom
Example Sentences
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Cast a Giant Shadow, another exercise in movie biography, may be filed as a case of mistaken identity: any resemblance to persons living or dead is sacrificed to make elbowroom for Hero Kirk Douglas.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is ever less elbowroom for the individual; submissive cooperation with increasingly remote and mysterious forces has become the order of the day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Notable improvements over the 42 include a roomier wheelhouse with an updated electronics panel, more elbowroom in the master stateroom forward, more space on the flybridge and a longer boat deck.
From Time Magazine Archive
He felt cramped in his constitutional compartment of powers, looked for elbowroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the same, I’m free to admit that I haven’t quite the elbowroom I need.”
From Stepsons of Light by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
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