elbow-to-elbow
Example Sentences
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People can sit elbow-to-elbow again at events with fixed seating, and sports events can take place as they did in pre-pandemic times.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2022
Its low-wage workers typically stand elbow-to-elbow to do the work of cutting, deboning and packing meat, making them particularly vulnerable to the airborne virus.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021
“It’s a pretty elite kind of private school,” said Doug Wetmore, who attended with Youngkin and worked elbow-to-elbow with him in the diner at the now-demolished Belvedere Hotel.
From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021
His rhymes are dense thickets of references and wordplay, gotta-keep-up puns elbow-to-elbow with nerdy pop-culture detritus, like this passage from Madvillainy’s “Rhinestone Cowboy”:
From Slate • Jan. 5, 2021
People stood elbow-to-elbow in the bald man’s shack.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
