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.
The shift will likely provide some extra elbow room in the carpool lanes and possibly inspire more drivers to carpool once again, experts say.
From Los Angeles Times
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
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
Yet there is also elbow room within those parameters, and on “Blackbraid II” you can hear a delicately strummed acoustic guitar here, a traditional flute there.
From New York Times
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