elbowroom
Example Sentences
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He felt cramped in his constitutional compartment of powers, looked for elbowroom.
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With all its new elbowroom, the company danced with new grace and exuberance.
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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.
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This means a house on the Thames, with a boat at the bottom of the garden and plenty of elbowroom for his wife and two young daughters.
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You're slick, and they ain't elbowroom enough in the West for slick gents.
From The Rangeland Avenger by Brand, Max