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elbow room

noun as in room to maneuver

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Example Sentences

We must make more—much more—elbow room before the Turks get help from Asia or Constantinople.

Montaigne would say:219 I will have elbow-room: I will be courteous and affable according to my fancy, without fear or remorse.

Why, hundreds and hundreds of white rabbits could live in that house and never lack for elbow room.

Farce has called for elbow-room; it takes three acts now, instead of one, to spread itself in.

Some persons, as she reflected, are permitted an amount of elbow room altogether disproportionate to their deserts.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to elbow room, such as: breathing space, latitude, clearance, freedom, leeway, and license.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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