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elbowroom

[el-boh-room, -room] / ˈɛl boʊˌrum, -ˌrʊm /








NOUN
sea room
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While winning elbowroom at the men's bar, she has lost her seat in the subway.

From Time Magazine Archive

With all its new elbowroom, the company danced with new grace and exuberance.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is ever less elbowroom for the individual; submissive cooperation with increasingly remote and mysterious forces has become the order of the day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cast a Giant Shadow, another exercise in movie biography, may be filed as a case of mistaken identity: any resemblance to persons living or dead is sacrificed to make elbowroom for Hero Kirk Douglas.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may look desolate and uncomfortable enough to others, because the central detail is neither bed nor wardrobe, sofa nor armchair, but a good solid writing-table that does not wriggle, and that has wide elbowroom.

From The Damned by Blackwood, Algernon




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