elbow-to-elbow
Example Sentences
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KUJAWY-POMERANIA PROVINCE, Poland — Olexi Kroshchenko, a clean-cut Ukrainian helicopter pilot, stood elbow-to-elbow with Chase Bailey, a bearded Las Vegas hipster, and learned how to fly drones in war zones.
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022
Markets usually attract elbow-to-elbow crowds to row upon row of ornament and food sellers, foot traffic that spills over into revenue for surrounding hotels and restaurants.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2021
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
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
