Sentence examples for elbow from inspiring English sources

Quotations from his books slipped into our daily speech whenever we wanted to appear clever: "Those were days when men were men"; "When a handshake goes beyond the elbow, then it has become something else".

"Playstation thumb" – in which players' thumbs became blistered and flaking – was reported in the South African Medical Journal, while "Nintendinitis" was a RSI-type injury affecting the wrist and elbow.

She is wearing a shirt dress, the buttons neatly fastened but the sleeves pushed up to the elbow.

Each household inside the favela makes its own connection to the community's single, slim water pipe, drilling a hole, attaching an elbow joint and running another pipe or hose into their homes.

Serena Williams is nursing a sore right elbow – and Maria Sharapova is trying hard, no doubt, not to smile too much.

Mertesacker sports a pale yellow bruise to his left temple, the legacy of a stray elbow from the goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny on the training ground and the buffeting, whether physical or mental, has come to feel relentless.

Monzon, who had only been on the field for 15 minutes, had to go, but Voller, who had already been cautioned for a foul on Maradona, was lucky to stay on the field after catching the same player in the face with a wayward elbow.

Instead, led in by the elbow, blindfold whipped away, the club's supporters have been presented with something that looks a bit more like a takeaway in front of the telly.

But in any case there is clearly a major difference between a player smashing his elbow into an opponent's face and going unpunished and a referee missing a handball.

Agreeing with the immigration department that the "enhanced escort position" – a controversial elbow and arm lock, which Guardian Australia understands previously had to be approved for use by a Serco manager – be deregulated and "allowed to be used for all detainees who present any capability of escape".

Sevilla's appearance in the Europa League final meant that the whole continent got to enjoy Unai Emery's blazer in all its red elbow-patched glory.