It's lacking in tight quarters

Usage examples of elbowroom.

Drumfishers shoved for elbowroom to lay out grapnels and chains that would bind the two ships for boarding.

That any one should have the energy to come ashore when he was comfortable on board, or leave the shore when amply provided there with sunshine, elbowroom, and other necessaries of life, presented itself to them as a fact worthy of note but not of emulation.

Beamish, our first, if not our only philosophical beau and a gentleman of some thoughtfulness, that the social English require tyrannical government as much as the political are able to dispense with it: and this he explained by an exposition of the character of a race possessed of the eminent virtue of individual selfassertion, which causes them to insist on good elbowroom wherever they gather together.

High desert, plenty of elbowroom, good folks who know when to leave you alone and when to help out.

Pale-faced people spring from their seats and precipitate themselves toward the door, and each old sailor breathes more freely as his seasick neighbor rushes from his side, leaving him plenty of elbowroom and a command over the mustard.

Inside the command turret, despite the clutter of machinery and instruments and the bulky gun breech, there was a lot of elbowroom.