elbowroom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of elbowroom
Example Sentences
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While winning elbowroom at the men's bar, she has lost her seat in the subway.
From Time Magazine Archive
He felt cramped in his constitutional compartment of powers, looked for elbowroom.
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
With all its new elbowroom, the company danced with new grace and exuberance.
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 Corwin, Edward Samuel
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