elbow room
Example Sentences
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Amsterdam’s canals may be gloriously picturesque, but try finding the elbow room to get a decent photo.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
Yeah, you don’t have a lot of elbow room.
From Slate • Dec. 10, 2023
But conventional accelerators require plenty of elbow room -- kilometers -- making them expensive and limiting their presence to a handful of national labs and universities.
From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2023
They're a little bit more irritated because they don't have any elbow room, where somebody puts the tray down in front of them and they're irritated because they don't have space.
From Salon • Nov. 12, 2023
You have a tendency not to give anybody elbow room in your mind for their ideas, no matter how silly you think they are.”
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
