Example sentences for: elbows

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

  • If you enjoy nursing grazed knees and elbows, you might like to emulate the local inhabitants and try a spot of roller-skating using in-line skates, or Roller-Blades, which have the wheels all in a row instead of one at each corner.

  • He would cut into the belly of one, at the kitchen sink, Mother squabbling in the background, and he'd be up to his elbows in silver, blood shining from the knife, the room smelling of sweat, boots, coffee, smoke, and though I'd been at home, in bed the whole time, I could see the Puyallup River, the herons rising, cattails and redwing blackbirds with their bottlebrush shapes and streaks of color, from shore to shore a thick fog, but rolling up and off like smoke, a reel singing as the steelhead ran with the line, the hurry, the thrash and splashing, feet stumbling along the shore to keep up, to keep the line from getting cut.

  • And sometimes foreigners thus got to rub elbows with President Clinton.

  • Dennis Rodman: all knuckles and knees and elbows and tattoos and nose rings and yellow hair.

  • She had mild contractures of elbows and knees, a long face with deep-set eyes, bilateral iridodonesis and high-grade myopia.


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