elbowroom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of elbowroom
Example Sentences
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On the other hand, the Bolshoi Swan Lake provided the soloists with more elbowroom to stitch figures of gaudy and often moving brilliance.
From Time Magazine Archive
With all its new elbowroom, the company danced with new grace and exuberance.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Night Is Young would probably be less dull if Edward Everett Horton and Charles Butterworth were given more elbowroom for their dependable buffooneries.
From Time Magazine Archive
While winning elbowroom at the men's bar, she has lost her seat in the subway.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may look desolate and uncomfortable enough to others, because the central detail is neither bed nor wardrobe, sofa nor armchair, but a good solid writing-table that does not wriggle, and that has wide elbowroom.
From The Damned by Algernon Blackwood
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