Elbowroom

The town is famous for its summer music festival and Playwrights Conference, but now is the time to enjoy a little elbowroom before you get swept up in the holiday rush. ❋ Anna Almendrala (2010)

They ran a fleet of Cessna 152s -- tiny two-seater aircrafts with less elbowroom than a GEO Metro and in aeronautical terms, about the same capabilities. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This stance gives him maximum elbowroom to interpret religion as primarily a delusion (as implied by the title), like the parasitic worm that commandeers ants by burrowing into their brains (the first example of the book). ❋ Unknown (2008)

He points visitors to the 37,291-acre Coosa Wildlife Management Area in east-central Alabama, the 39,139-acre Upper Delta WMA in the extreme southwestern part of the state, and the Choccolocco WMA in the northeast, where hunters willing to hike or bike can find plenty of elbowroom in 50,100 acres of prime Appalachia turkey woods. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I wish he would employ this winter in concluding a separate peace with the Elector of Saxony; which would give him more elbowroom to act against France and the Queen of Hungary, and put an end at once to the proceedings of the Diet, and the army of the empire; for then no estate of the empire would be invaded by a co-estate, and ❋ Unknown (2005)

Clemens pointed out the scenery he had bought to give himself elbowroom, and showed me the lot he was going to have me build on. ❋ Unknown (2003)

On both pairings, you hear analog and digital fumble cumbersomely for mutual elbowroom. ❋ Unknown (2000)

In order to tell a story, there must be some elbowroom, some breathing space, some hcense - otherwise you become as squeamish as a vegetarian. ❋ Peter, Ustinov (1977)

That didn't mean there was going to be plenty of elbowroom. ❋ Haldeman, Joe (1975)

They have worn well physically and aesthetically, and they reflect something of the spaciousness, the elbowroom, the gracious living, and the respect for nature which are so lacking today. ❋ Unknown (1969)

At the outset of the advance, the ranks would tend to open out, as the individual soldiers sought sufficient elbowroom, but as the column approached its target, the reverse became the case. ❋ DAVID G. CHANDLER (1966)

"Speculation" has far more elbowroom than extrapolation; it starts with a "What if?" ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1966)

It seems probable, though its official historians do not admit as much, that the Stavka felt a certain uneasiness about the central sector, which had lain dormant throughout the year, and believed that a blow at the junction of the southern and central sectors would give its forces more elbowroom and serve to draw off any German reserves that might be accumulating there. ❋ Clark, Alan (1965)

Finding himself with elbowroom for the first time, he pushed through, swung the door open and switched on the lights. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Jefferson's cosmopolitanism beckoned, and gave to it a secure abode with plenty of elbowroom. ❋ Edward Samuel Corwin (1920)

The streets grow ever deeper and narrower, every open space fills up and disappears, till, finally, the houses overleap the wall of Philip Augustus, and spread themselves joyfully over the country like escaped prisoners, without plan or system, gathering themselves together in knots, cutting slices out of the surrounding fields for gardens, taking plenty of elbowroom. ❋ Unknown (1917)