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elbowroom

[el-boh-room, -room] / ˈɛl boʊˌrum, -ˌrʊm /








NOUN
sea room
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The Night Is Young would probably be less dull if Edward Everett Horton and Charles Butterworth were given more elbowroom for their dependable buffooneries.

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

There is ever less elbowroom for the individual; submissive cooperation with increasingly remote and mysterious forces has become the order of the day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Below, the 325 offers a lot of elbowroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the same, I’m free to admit that I haven’t quite the elbowroom I need.”

From Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes




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