elbow room
noun
1
a
: room for moving the elbows freely
b
: adequate space for work or operation
a lab with plenty of elbow room
2
: free scope
elbow room to try new ideas
Examples of elbow room in a Sentence
It's a small kitchen with very little elbow room.
help me move the furniture so that we'll have enough elbow room to do some aerobics
Recent Examples on the Web
And a few of them have come up with innovative new ways to gain back some digital elbow room on the road.
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Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
With this shift, folks are flocking to small town destinations with lots of charm and elbow room.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2024
The 1,500-acre lake spreads across the high plains between Springerville and St. Johns, just isolated enough to offer a little elbow room.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
The filmmaker had access to Simon’s archives and enjoyed a perhaps surprising degree of elbow room in his close encounters with the performer, now 82, who’s grappling with the near-total loss of hearing in his left ear even as his new lyrics deal with questions of faith and mortality.
—Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
On planes that also feature Mint business class, the Core cabin has 102 seats in a 3-3 layout, so the one drawback is a potential lack of elbow room as the A321 is just a single-aisle plane.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2024
Because of the uncertainty principle, which states that a particle’s position and speed can’t be known precisely at the same time, this reduction in the electrons’ elbow room means their velocity must increase via a kind of seesawing of fundamental physical laws.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
With that kind of elbow room, there's hardly a need to wake up early to claim a deck chair.
—David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2024
Rather than start a search for new leadership before bond holders force them to do so, directors argue that the current management team needs more elbow room to turn things around.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024
Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
With this shift, folks are flocking to small town destinations with lots of charm and elbow room.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2024
The 1,500-acre lake spreads across the high plains between Springerville and St. Johns, just isolated enough to offer a little elbow room.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
The filmmaker had access to Simon’s archives and enjoyed a perhaps surprising degree of elbow room in his close encounters with the performer, now 82, who’s grappling with the near-total loss of hearing in his left ear even as his new lyrics deal with questions of faith and mortality.
—Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
On planes that also feature Mint business class, the Core cabin has 102 seats in a 3-3 layout, so the one drawback is a potential lack of elbow room as the A321 is just a single-aisle plane.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2024
Because of the uncertainty principle, which states that a particle’s position and speed can’t be known precisely at the same time, this reduction in the electrons’ elbow room means their velocity must increase via a kind of seesawing of fundamental physical laws.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
With that kind of elbow room, there's hardly a need to wake up early to claim a deck chair.
—David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2024
Rather than start a search for new leadership before bond holders force them to do so, directors argue that the current management team needs more elbow room to turn things around.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024
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“Elbow room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elbow%20room. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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