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waist-deep

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  1. up to the waist
    the water rose waist-high

How To Use waist-deep In A Sentence

  • In Bihar, for instance, during the Chhath festival, devotees are required to stand in waist-deep water while paying obeisance to the Sun-god.
  • Where we were standing, the lake was waist-deep.
  • In early August it was "waist-deep in clover — beautiful," he says. 9/11 put anonymous faces on the front page of history
  • Sometimes they had to wade waist-deep through mud.
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  • So he stood waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock that upreared into the azure from the midmost centre of Guadalcanar, a landmark used for bearings by every coasting mariner, a mountain as yet untrod by the foot of a white man. Chapter 23
  • Sometimes they had to wade waist-deep through mud.
  • At the top there was blue sky, but wind enough to lick fine spindrift snow from the lips of waist-deep drifts.
  • So trotter built it, and, man, did they come. Supposedly god-fearing folk, waist-deep in booze, sex, gambling. I barely lifted a finger.
  • Fergus was in waist-deep and sinking fast.
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