elbow room

Example Sentences

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“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

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

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