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Example sentences for "elbowed"

Lexicographically close words:
elate; elated; elaters; elation; elbow; elbowing; elbows; elde; elded; elder
  1. Faint with disgust he elbowed his way through the mob to the bar, thankful that those about him, absorbed in the engrossing occupation of getting drunk, paid him not the least heed.

  2. An officer, with jingling spurs and sword in hand, elbowed through the heart of the press.

  3. Those who did not dance elbowed their way through the crowd, conversing with acquaintances, the men frequently taking another glass of punch.

  4. Groland von Laufenholz now no longer elbowed us in the bower to spoil our handwriting so that he could put a blooming life onto the table in its place.

  5. Around me the women and young girls especially elbowed and wriggled their way to the front, and shuddered, and were glad.

  6. She responded with a spirit she had not shown before, our lips met more passionately than ever, and our single body swayed among the invisible, ejaculating throng that elbowed and jostled us.

  7. I ascended two dark flights of steps, closely encaged, and followed a long elbowed corridor.

  8. Frank jumped from the moving car and elbowed his way forward.

  9. Nathan Spear elbowed his way to the commander's side.

  10. The impassive attitude of the four contrasted strikingly with the scene beyond the counter, where eighteen or twenty persons elbowed and pushed one another, their flushed faces eloquent of the spirit of greed.

  11. And they would not be still, they pushed and elbowed one another, rose on tiptoe and shuffled their feet, quarrelled among themselves.

  12. She had been asked to dance by some very young gentleman, but as she elbowed her way through the quadrille, she was still staring right and left with unabated amazement.

  13. So crowded has the world become, that there is scarce standing-room; and even the lingering ghosts of olden times are elbowed and jostled aside.

  14. She elbowed her difficult way onward towards us, and nodding to me familiarly, seated herself and her Vandals on a line with us.

  15. Mrs. Kent, hatless and evening coated, was elbowed by a lady from Paddy Lane, hatless because she had no presentable hat, and wearing a ragged shawl.

  16. Young Chester Gaynor elbowed his way to the front, but stopped there, grinning at the invader, restrained perhaps by a lady's voice, which was to be heard admonishing him excitedly.

  17. Lady Turnour; but when the door of a bedroom was opened for her by the red-elbowed one, she cried out in despair.

  18. And that ought to hold the “bears” back, the man declared, as Durkin elbowed his way in to the guards.

  19. This done, he elbowed and pushed his way hurriedly to the ring-side.

  20. Durkin, however, pushed resolutely through the staggering mass, and elbowed and twisted his way slowly up the stairs.

  21. But bit by bit criticism elbowed out music-making, as music-making had elbowed out criticism with Schumann and Berlioz.

  22. He came swaggering by me, and elbowed me as he passed.

  23. The conversation was here interrupted by a busy hum in the audience; and the auctioneer, a short, bustling, important fellow, elbowed his way into the crowd.

  24. The two girls elbowed through a silent lip-licking crowd.

  25. The white temple of the Farmers' Bank was elbowed back by a grocery of glaring yellow brick.

  26. I hung about the entrance to the hall, I pushed here and there in the press, elbowed out of it by resentful citizens.

  27. The hall was split lengthwise by a bank of chairs, and down the left aisle the company of those who had already gripped the broad palm of the candidate, had been elbowed to oblivion by the committee.

  28. Men in flawless top-coats, high hats, and silver-headed walking sticks elbowed near and looked too often into conscious eyes.

  29. Artists and statesmen elbowed one another there.

  30. Awkward fellows with false beards, dressed like high priests in robes of yellow, striped with red, elbowed past and jostled against the girls quite unceremoniously.

  31. Having elbowed their way along as far as the St. James restaurant, they began to move with a little more ease, and could have talked as they went, but apparently neither of them felt conversational.

  32. But it brought him a relieving touch of happiness; he understood now why she had elbowed into the background the thing that had stood out so important to him.

  33. The artist in him, receiving its dole, elbowed the man in him slowly aside.

  34. The doctor was making a search of the berth when the conductor elbowed his way through, followed by the inquisitive man, who had evidently summoned him.

  35. The amateur detective elbowed his way in.

  36. Nevertheless, there was a good deal of hooting as several well-known members of the Chamber elbowed their way through the serried masses.

  37. Hughie, flushing red, elbowed his way out of the paddock and steered a course for a ferry-boat a hundred yards down the Long Reach.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elbowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.