an extent or area available for or used up by some activity or thing
help me move the furniture so that we'll have enough elbow room to do some aerobics
Recent Examples on the WebThe 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 See all Example Sentences for elbow room
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