elbowroom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of elbowroom
Example Sentences
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He felt cramped in his constitutional compartment of powers, looked for elbowroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
With all its new elbowroom, the company danced with new grace and exuberance.
From Time Magazine Archive
By war's end, father Jay was moving aside to give Harsen plenty of elbowroom, and Harsen's ideas were to expand.
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 Blackwood, Algernon
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