Example sentences for: elbow

How can you use “elbow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "He does not need to elbow others out of the way and brag, but it's not because he's humble.

  • Although it was Elbow Patch and Tweed Day at the committee, the NYT shows that often the academic witnesses were just foils for members' speechifying.

  • Here's a headline from this weekend's New York Times : "Swerve and Sharp Elbow Cost a Hotfoot the Stage."

  • Hillary Clinton has reportedly long been "suspicious" about her husband's "fixation" on Franklin and once had to elbow him in the stomach "to get him to stop staring at her unbelievable cleavage" during a White House concert.

  • His Hue and Cry and, later, Elbow Room , spoke directly to that integrationist experience, to the complexities (and confusions) of inhabiting an environment where, say, white people valued aspects of black culture, like the blues, that my own firmly middle-class family had long since discarded.


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