How To Use Elbowing In A Sentence
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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.
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Which is a safe choice, but hardly the point of a festival about elbowing the creative boundaries a little.
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The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
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Janey sing-songed, elbowing me in hopes of a happier response.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Wouldn't it be interesting if the organisation and the referees get really tough on the pulling, dragging and elbowing that passes for football.
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Add to that the speeding fine and a five-match ban for elbowing an opponent.
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The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
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He shared the operating theatre with around 20 medical students, all elbowing and jostling for the best view.
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Players are elbowing opponents and get one match ban, it is quite amazing.
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elbowing is a foul in basketball
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(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.)
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Janey sing-songed, elbowing me in hopes of a happier response.
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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
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And I sincerely doubt that they've made a systematic and concerted effort to remedy that situation since elbowing me out of the picture.
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After elbowing my way past four lanes of inferior bowlers, I finally reached her.
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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
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She has already battled in front of me, elbowing me in the arm sharply as she went.
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Strasbourg were reduced to 10 men early in the second half when striker Lionel Rouxel was dismissed for elbowing an opponent.
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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
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It's not fair; he got to the front by elbowing his way forward.
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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.
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The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
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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.
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The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
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‘Oh, and look at that,’ he said, elbowing me and nodding toward a woman wearing tight ski pants.
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‘Oh, and look at that,’ he said, elbowing me and nodding toward a woman wearing tight ski pants.
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At once, there was intense jostling and elbowing.
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The English player accused the Frenchman of deliberately elbowing him in the face after he was left with a broken nose.
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We went where there were free samples, elbowing each other out of the way to get to them.
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But he could come under video scrutiny after elbowing another player in the head during the final quarter.
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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.
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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.
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The policeman could be seen elbowing the prisoner twice in the shoulder area of his back during the struggle.
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The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
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It's not fair; he got to the front by elbowing his way forward.
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They are also, alas, elbowing common sense out of the window.
Times, Sunday Times
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Customers vouch for the convenience of shopping in a plaza without the hassle of elbowing through a crowded market.
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The ship moved through the pack ice, elbowing floes out of the way as if they were unwanted thoughts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
