Example sentences for: elbow

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

  • 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.

  • The small Chapel of St. Francis Xavier is dedicated to the 16th-century patron saint of missionaries, and has on display the elbow of the saint, along with the bones of numerous Japanese and Vietnamese martyrs.

  • My wife found her lying on the ground, her right arm bent midway between the elbow and the wrist as if she had an unnatural extra joint.

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

  • Here on the outer elbow facing the Atlantic Ocean you can listen to the pounding surf and stroll the awesome beaches that are backed by huge dunes.


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