elbowroom
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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.
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While winning elbowroom at the men's bar, she has lost her seat in the subway.
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On the other hand, the Bolshoi Swan Lake provided the soloists with more elbowroom to stitch figures of gaudy and often moving brilliance.
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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.
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Finding himself with elbowroom for the first time, he pushed through, swung the door open and switched on the lights.
From Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse