elbow room
noun
1
a
: room for moving the elbows freely
b
: adequate space for work or operation
a lab with plenty of elbow room
2
: free scope
elbow room to try new ideas
Examples of elbow room in a Sentence
It's a small kitchen with very little elbow room.
help me move the furniture so that we'll have enough elbow room to do some aerobics
Recent Examples on the Web
And a few of them have come up with innovative new ways to gain back some digital elbow room on the road.
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Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
With this shift, folks are flocking to small town destinations with lots of charm and elbow room.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2024
The 1,500-acre lake spreads across the high plains between Springerville and St. Johns, just isolated enough to offer a little elbow room.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
The filmmaker had access to Simon’s archives and enjoyed a perhaps surprising degree of elbow room in his close encounters with the performer, now 82, who’s grappling with the near-total loss of hearing in his left ear even as his new lyrics deal with questions of faith and mortality.
—Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
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Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
With this shift, folks are flocking to small town destinations with lots of charm and elbow room.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2024
The 1,500-acre lake spreads across the high plains between Springerville and St. Johns, just isolated enough to offer a little elbow room.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
The filmmaker had access to Simon’s archives and enjoyed a perhaps surprising degree of elbow room in his close encounters with the performer, now 82, who’s grappling with the near-total loss of hearing in his left ear even as his new lyrics deal with questions of faith and mortality.
—Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
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“Elbow room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elbow%20room. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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