How To Use Elbowing In A Sentence

  • The grilled calamari was much better, although our waiter forgot the crucial lemon wedge and had to go elbowing back through the crowd to retrieve it.
  • Which is a safe choice, but hardly the point of a festival about elbowing the creative boundaries a little.
  • The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
  • Janey sing-songed, elbowing me in hopes of a happier response.
  • A plucky schoolboy fought off a robber who tried to steal his sweet money by elbowing him in the stomach.
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  • Logan pushed his way through the crowd, elbowing people left and right.
  • Which means I'm on a mission: elbowing my way past strangers, zig-zagging between cars, even occasionally breaking into a uncharacteristically moderately paced stroll.
  • So do the shadows and the sunshine wander, elbowing into one another on the moor, and so does the glance of smiling foliage soothe the austerity of crag and scaur. Mary Anerley
  • Wouldn't it be interesting if the organisation and the referees get really tough on the pulling, dragging and elbowing that passes for football.
  • Add to that the speeding fine and a five-match ban for elbowing an opponent.
  • The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
  • He shared the operating theatre with around 20 medical students, all elbowing and jostling for the best view.
  • Players are elbowing opponents and get one match ban, it is quite amazing.
  • elbowing is a foul in basketball
  • (I picture him in rumpled tie elbowing his laughing-head-into-her-hands hostess while he gestures breezily with a glass of chardonnay — white wine itself being much classier in 1983 than now.) Class Dismissed
  • It would describe Jesus' birth in a pitch-dark cave, amid piles of oxen scat and filthy hay and poor travelers elbowing into the Holy Family's space, Joseph worn out from a frantic search for an inn, Mary all alone as her water breaks and her pain hits excruciating levels. John Backman: A Jesus For The Great Recession (And Other Dark Times)
  • The thought of all those slick politicians and oily businessmen elbowing each other to jump on the green bandwagon makes me nauseous. Times, Sunday Times
  • The thought of all those slick politicians and oily businessmen elbowing each other to jump on the green bandwagon makes me nauseous. Times, Sunday Times
  • More than 40 customers elbowing for bargains at a discount sale in a local supermarket last week fell down stairs where two received fatal injuries.
  • Janey sing-songed, elbowing me in hopes of a happier response.
  • Penalties Back to top Period Team Time Player Type Level 1st period PHO 10: 23 Enver Lisin hooking minor PHO 10: 38 David Hale fighting major CAL 10: 38 Jarome Iginla fighting major CAL 14: 39 Rene Bourque elbowing minor 2nd period PHO: 22 Peter Mueller high-sticking minor 3rd period CAL 15: 53 Rene Bourque tripping minor USATODAY.com
  • And I sincerely doubt that they've made a systematic and concerted effort to remedy that situation since elbowing me out of the picture.
  • After elbowing my way past four lanes of inferior bowlers, I finally reached her.
  • The thought of all those slick politicians and oily businessmen elbowing each other to jump on the green bandwagon makes me nauseous. Times, Sunday Times
  • She has already battled in front of me, elbowing me in the arm sharply as she went.
  • Strasbourg were reduced to 10 men early in the second half when striker Lionel Rouxel was dismissed for elbowing an opponent.
  • Penalties Back to top Period Team Time Player Type Level 1st period CAL: 15 Robyn Regehr hooking minor 2nd period NYR 1: 38 Aaron Voros tripping minor NYR 5: 54 Scott Gomez holding minor CAL 13: 05 Rene Bourque hooking minor CAL 18: 27 Dion Phaneuf elbowing minor 3rd period CAL 16: 17 Adrian Aucoin hooking minor USATODAY.com
  • It's not fair; he got to the front by elbowing his way forward.
  • The good and the bad parts of our lives do not interlock with reassuring neatness across the course of a lifetime; instead they sit together in heterogeneous disarray, elbowing one another like distant ancestors told to bunch up tight for a family photograph. On Reading Zen « Tales from the Reading Room
  • The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
  • But by 6 pm, invaders had already taken over the band, jostling, pushing and elbowing anyone in their path, forcing reluctant revelers to the sides of the road.
  • The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
  • ‘Oh, and look at that,’ he said, elbowing me and nodding toward a woman wearing tight ski pants.
  • ‘Oh, and look at that,’ he said, elbowing me and nodding toward a woman wearing tight ski pants.
  • At once, there was intense jostling and elbowing.
  • The English player accused the Frenchman of deliberately elbowing him in the face after he was left with a broken nose.
  • We went where there were free samples, elbowing each other out of the way to get to them.
  • But he could come under video scrutiny after elbowing another player in the head during the final quarter.
  • That's where the kids who were fighting decided to get off too, pushing and elbowing their way past the other people who were trying to get off.
  • In Rome the clutter of history elbowing the jowls of the modern seems overwhelming, in Venice - despite obvious historical layers and tourist-trap intrusions - it all seems made of one piece.
  • The policeman could be seen elbowing the prisoner twice in the shoulder area of his back during the struggle.
  • The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
  • It's not fair; he got to the front by elbowing his way forward.
  • They are also, alas, elbowing common sense out of the window. Times, Sunday Times
  • Customers vouch for the convenience of shopping in a plaza without the hassle of elbowing through a crowded market.
  • The ship moved through the pack ice, elbowing floes out of the way as if they were unwanted thoughts.
  • Sometimes it's every bit as hard-edged and engaging as you might imagine, elbowing its way right up to the forefront of your consciousness, demanding you re-assess your scandalously dismissive attitude toward fusion.
  • She had been there for one instant, and then gone again; no one around him seemed to have noticed, and the people pushed past him rudely, shoving and elbowing him on the street.
  • Miller later got himself booked and was back in the wars towards the end when Gary Smith accused him of elbowing him in the face.

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