How to Use rub elbows with in a Sentence

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  • Karen cannot wait to rub elbows with goddesses Peaches and Azealia!
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 17 Jan. 2023
  • East End to rub elbows with Hamptonites for Fourth of July weekend.
    Fox News, 5 July 2022
  • Silk velvet and wool tapestry rub elbows with chrome, leather, and resin.
    Anita Sarsidi, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2023
  • Historic sites from the late 1880s rub elbows with restaurants, art galleries, nightclubs and other hotspots.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • To be sure, refusing to rub elbows with tyrants and assorted swells from the International Olympic Committee is the right thing to do.
    oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Household names like Chrissy Teigen and Andrew Zimmern rub elbows with restaurateurs and home chefs who can shell out the $1,800 for admission.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Don’t expect to rub elbows with Hollywood celebrities, though.
    Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 28 July 2023
  • At that point, the CDC would suggest that people who rub elbows with folks at high risk for severe disease might want to consider self-testing or masking indoors.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2022
  • But Rubenstein had an insight that wound up defining Carlyle: Rich people and powerful people like to rub elbows with one another.
    Washington Post, 7 June 2021
  • On competition day, under the big oak tree outside the Augusta clubhouse, the kids will rub elbows with past Masters winners donning their green jackets.
    Tod Leonard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Attendees rub elbows with everyone from local restauranteurs and rum distillers to celebrity chefs, all while sampling tasty food and drink.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
  • For decades, Orlando’s private University Club was well known as the place to be to toast drinks with local politicians, dine with influential business leaders and rub elbows with other members of the city’s elite.
    Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Unlike some nonprofits, class divides often come into sharp relief at museums, where wealthy donors rub elbows with low-wage workers.
    Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2021
  • That particular talent led him to rub elbows with the academics, programmers, and politicians who would become enmeshed with Simulmatics.
    J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Not many people got to rub elbows with colleagues from the enemy nation during the Cold War, let alone surreptitiously share data with the enemy for the benefit of all mankind, but Graveline did.
    Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Therefore, their creation and the securing of grants offer members the easiest way to rub elbows with voters and generate the favorable headlines that will assure their reelection.
    James L. Buckley, National Review, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Design environments where leaders are present and accessible, and where people can rub elbows with talented colleagues, feel connected with the goals of the organization and come together for a shared purpose.
    Tracy Brower, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • Social spaces clustered around the lobby are designed to enable manufacturers to connect with technology consultants, and employers to rub elbows with trainees seeking opportunities.
    Steven Litt, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2022

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