elbowroom
Example Sentences
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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
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
There's elbowroom below for routine maintenance, and vital fluids checks are easy thanks to Volvo's color-coding system.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the other hand, the Bolshoi Swan Lake provided the soloists with more elbowroom to stitch figures of gaudy and often moving brilliance.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may look desolate and uncomfortable enough to others, because the central detail is neither bed nor wardrobe, sofa nor armchair, but a good solid writing-table that does not wriggle, and that has wide elbowroom.
From The Damned by Blackwood, Algernon
