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waist-high

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

How To Use waist-high In A Sentence

  • I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
  • If your front yard slopes downward, it is a good idea to terrace it and/or have a waist-high hedge blocking the initial drop off.
  • Boats work too, of course, but for many fishermennothing will do but a waist-high immersion in seething foam while hurling plugsor bait into combers kicked up by an autumn nor'easter. How to Catch Fall Stripers: It's Not Easy, but It's Worth It
  • Heck, merely standing in waist-high water is a good workout, thanks to the action of the water. And you'll feel so much more alive!
  • ‘I could see the flag but I had to hit it about waist-high coming out of there,’ he said.
  • But the main barrier is the land itself, an expanse of sun-whitened, heat-hazed bajada telescoping the waist-high vegetation to nothing.
  • Majestic and aloof it soared, dwarfing all near it -- the termitary which, yesterday, had been but waist-high. The Raid on the Termites
  • Onside from three yards out, he tries to stab a waist-high opportunity past Mark Schwarzer in the Australia goal and misses it completely.
  • Padlin stumbled into the pack of bettors clustered at the waist-high fence.
  • An irrigation ditch ran alongside to the left of the track and was filled with water, weeds, waist-high rushes and reeds.
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