elbow room

Example Sentences

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The crew of four — in the dim green glow of their spacecraft, with no more elbow room than a Sprinter van — entered a profound solitude few have ever experienced.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

“They had some elbow room to cut…. That’s just not where they are now,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

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

You have a tendency not to give anybody elbow room in your mind for their ideas, no matter how silly you think they are.”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee