Hit in the ribs, say

Usage examples of elbowed.

I elbowed my way in among the others, stood by the arguer, and would have taken his part in the debate with Charon, except that Menippus glared at me with resentment the first time I opened my mouth on his behalf.

A cheerful throng of bonhomous Gormans elbowed him to one side while everyone took photographs of nearly everyone else.

Whoever in the mists of time had first built my bothy had chosen its position well: it backed straight into an elbowed granite outcrop that sheltered it from the north and east, so that winter blizzards mostly leapfrogged over the top.

He caught the words les chiens, mort, pourquoi, Broussard cabane, and elbowed his way into the crowd.

With a pile of diet wafers and a snack bar balanced on a saucer in one hand, a pot of caff in the other, and a notebook under his arm, Procyon navigated the door of his basement home office, elbowed the switch, and let the robot turn the lights on.

He elbowed his son and nodded his head so vigorously that it seemed that the dewdrop must leave his nose for ever, but it stuck like gum, swinging backwards and forwards clanging against his nostrils.

They spotted Denhagel just behind the lines of Killers and elbowed their way toward him, There was no sign of Fok, however.

He elbowed through the crowd in front of the court room until he was close to Runkle, and tapped him on the shoulder.

A quiet man could not walk the highways without being elbowed into the kennel by swaggering swashbucklers, or accosted by painted hussies.

She stepped forward and was about to insert the coin in the two thaler slot when a kindly-looking old lady elbowed her aside.

All he saw were kids from good schools with rich daddies, braying boys who elbowed him off the pavements and disdainful girls who swept past him as if he did not exist.

Shiro and Parant both sharply elbowed him in the ribs, and he bit off a grunt.

Twice he required the junior astrogator to reperform portions of his work and once elbowed him aside and did it himself.

Huge oars like golden fins projected from her sides and dipped lazily every now and then, apparently wielded by the hands of invisible rowers, whose united voices supplied the lack of the needful wind,--and as he caught sight of this cumbrously quaint galley, Theos, moved by sudden interest, elbowed his way resolutely though the dense crowd till he gained the edge of the embankment, where leaning against the marble balustrade, he watched with a curious fascination its gradual advance.

Men, and even women, elbowed him, unresenting, out of the way, without the semblance of an apology.