elbow-to-elbow
Example Sentences
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It was a little yellow stucco house, and like so many in South L.A. practically elbow-to-elbow with the ones next door.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
Markets usually attract elbow-to-elbow crowds to row upon row of ornament and food sellers, foot traffic that spills over into revenue for surrounding hotels and restaurants.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2021
His rhymes are dense thickets of references and wordplay, gotta-keep-up puns elbow-to-elbow with nerdy pop-culture detritus, like this passage from Madvillainy’s “Rhinestone Cowboy”:
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2021
At big games, there can be as many as 400 Gonzaga students standing elbow-to-elbow in the bleachers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2020
People stood elbow-to-elbow in the bald man’s shack.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
