elbowroom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of elbowroom
Example Sentences
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There's elbowroom below for routine maintenance, and vital fluids checks are easy thanks to Volvo's color-coding system.
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
This means a house on the Thames, with a boat at the bottom of the garden and plenty of elbowroom for his wife and two young daughters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Below, the 325 offers a lot of elbowroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marshall's nationalism rescued American democracy from the vaguer horizons to which Jefferson's cosmopolitanism beckoned, and gave to it a secure abode with plenty of elbowroom.
From John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court by Edward Samuel Corwin
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