How to Use elbow room in a Sentence

elbow room

noun

• It's a small kitchen with very little elbow room.
• For ample elbow room, head to the center of the country.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 11 May 2023
• 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
• With one leaf up, four people can sit around the table for dinner with elbow room to spare.
  — Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
• 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
• And a few of them have come up with innovative new ways to gain back some digital elbow room on the road.
  — 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
• What president doesn’t return to his home state after his term to give his successors elbow room in D.C.?
  — Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
• The room has to be fitted to withstand two hours of fire, to give more elbow room to electricians working in it, and to be built with two exit doors, which isn’t always possible.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2023
• Constructed of solid black walnut wood, this table has plenty of elbow room for eight.
  — Shannon Quimby, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
• Eddie Renshaw and Evan Pierce finally have some elbow room in their new, larger Golden kitchen.
  — Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• Each is surrounded by landscaping and each has an sheltered outdoor living room/patio area where guests can lounge with a little more elbow room, cook on a grill, and watch TV or the flames in a fire pit.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2023
• Game rooms are designed for foosball, pool, billiards and air hockey tables as well as arcade games to have floor space and for players to have elbow room to really compete.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
• Anyone expecting a repeat of the ample elbow room on many cruises last summer should prepare.
  — Jacob Passy, WSJ, 25 May 2023
• 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
• Andrew Cunningham 2014: Very little elbow room at Sony's booth.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023
• More ergonomic design allows seats to use more or less the standard economy footprint while giving passengers more knee and elbow room.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• This trailer measures 34 inches wide, giving passengers a little extra elbow room whether it’s used as a trailer, stroller, or jogger.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 16 Oct. 2023
• Features like a drop-leaf or extendable dining tables can give each diner more elbow room, plus extra surface area for serving dishes.
  — Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
• The hotel's grid-like façade is a groovy nod to those authentic midcentury roots, while inside, contemporary expectations of comfort, cleanliness, and plenty of elbow room are met.
  — Elisabeth Carroll Parks, Chron, 20 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024