Sentence examples for elbow around from inspiring English sources

A small road, cut like an elbow around a deep gulch, led to Alfacar past what had once been a children's summer camp called La Colonia.

The other harvest teams -- liver, kidney, pancreas -- were already in place when we arrived, pressed elbow to elbow around the operating table.

After spilling a few drops of the coffee down his front, he hooks his elbow around the pole and cracks open the book: "Mein Kampf".

On my weekend there were 10 of us, crammed elbow to elbow, around a long table in a 1902 stone blacksmith's cottage that not only served as our workshop, but functions as a gift store, too.

The act of posing and the transactional relationship of subject and photographer seem to bring out defiant expressions, as well as proprietary gestures; parents wrap their arms around their children, couples cling to each other, and one young woman wearing only sneakers hooks her elbow around a tree trunk.

He set up the band Phoenix, already fairly famous at that point, as buskers in a sea of tourists outside the Eiffel Tower; the National sat crammed elbow to elbow around a picnic table in the South of France; Yo La Tengo played a Troggs cover amid squealing schoolchildren in Montmartre.

Russell's teammates sympathized with him when he told them of how he had been profiled — at least until he began throwing sharp elbows around during a scrimmage, mostly in the direction of the team's white players.

Benson fouled McGhee, but McGhee's elbow swung around and hit Nelson over the left eyebrow in what appeared to be an accident.

In New York City, it also means that a life in the arms of the theater can include elbowing around in a fraught and expensive market for real estate.

The tangled thicket of arms and elbows around the rim after every missed shot, the arguments after nearly every official's call, the missed foul shots.

I wrap my elbows around the thick padded bars that cage me and stick my fingers in my ears against a painful clanking noise.