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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Yeah, you don’t have a lot of elbow room.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2023

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 • Nov. 27, 2023

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 • Nov. 12, 2023

Not so long ago H. Wayne Huizenga, the billionaire founder of Blockbuster and owner of the Miami Dolphins, wanted more elbow room and bought a neighboring house for $2.5 million.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times