What is "elbows"

Usage examples of "elbows".

From where he was standing, leaning with one foot up on the bottom rail and his elbows planted on the top of the fence that encircled his cottage and enclosed his back yard, Bader could look down the hill, through the gray shadows of the barren trees, and into the gully, all the way to the edge of the creek-- a curling silver thread--where Roy and Darcy and Lee, diminished and toylike, worked.

The lit window farthest from the limp flag has solid swarthy guys in beards and loud shirts passing back and forth snapping their fingers under their elbows with flower-strewn females in tow.

She kicked out with her feet and flailed about with her elbows as the man beneath her grunted and snarled half-coherent curses.

She slid forward onto her elbows, cradling her chin in her hands, and regarded the tower with an almost satisfied air.

He scrabbled with his arms and elbows, trying to roll over so he could see Dasumia.

He paused at the Portal, swept his elbows out to make the shards slash at him one last time.

The slab where he had stood, so close between Femter and Hrelgrath that they could easily have jostled elbows with him, was empty.

I felt for the rope attached to the bed, got it in both hands, eased my elbows off the sill, and dropped quickly, hand over hand, as macdonald played out my life line.

His feet have been planted side by side on the deep pile of the carpet as he leans forward toward his wife with his elbows on his knees, his hands hanging, long thin fingers curled into fists.

Darcy with that smudge of freckles on the bridge of her nose, grimy knuckles and filthy fingernails, torn sneakers and scraped elbows and scabbed knees.

Cort leans his elbows on the windowsill and squints out across the yard toward the curve of Bell Road, and on upward to the shadowy rim of the bluffs beyond.

Bader bouncing awkwardly in his saddle, elbows poked out, hair flopping up and down.

Lee crossed his arms over his narrow chest and cupped his elbows in his hands, hugging himself.

She turned to face him, with her elbows bent and her hands gripping the edge of the counter.

He kept on smiling, trying to think of what he was going to do with her, what he ought to say next, and then he was squinting at her, with his arms folded over his chest and his elbows cupped in his palms.