elbow room
Example Sentences
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“Viewed positively, what the American revolution did was to give the common man a voice, a veto, elbow room and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of his ‘betters.’
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
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
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
