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
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 • Oct. 1, 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
Still, it gave me all the elbow room I needed.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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