Synonyms for elbow-room

Grammar : Noun

Spell : el-boh-room, -roo m

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛl boʊˌrum, -ˌrʊm

Définition of elbow-room

As in elbow room : noun room to maneuver

Example sentences :

And Elbow-room was Burgoyne's name for a long time thereafter.
Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French

Then why isn't he giving us elbow-room on the outside of that buoy, sir?
Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day

It may not have what can properly be called grounds, but it must have elbow-room, at any rate.
Extract from : « Elsie Venner » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

This means not only plenty of "elbow-room" upon the water, but of shore-room.
Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 » by Various

Work is better done when you can see what you do, and have elbow-room.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Bread » by Peter Kropotkin

I still made the most of my elbow-room in class and at meals, but it ceased to be amusing.
Extract from : « Boycotted » by Talbot Baines Reed

I have to attend to 'm, I have to be politic and give her elbow-room for her natural angles.
Extract from : « The Celt and Saxon, Complete » by George Meredith

He was the thirtieth in a room where there was not elbow-room for four.
Extract from : « The Countess of Charny » by Alexandre Dumas (pere)

And if he could not still have health and liberty, he would at least have elbow-room.
Extract from : « The Silver Poppy » by Arthur Stringer

Elbow-room has been quite scarce in Nashville during the past week.
Extract from : « The American Joe Miller » by Various

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