waist-deep

ADVERB
  1. up to the waist
    the water rose waist-high
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How To Use waist-deep In A Sentence

  • In places, the snow was waist-deep .
  • There were a couple of minor incidents such as when I accidentally took a step into a snowdrift and found myself waist-deep in snow, and later when I was trying to climb down a bank I slipped and fell quite heavily onto my back.
  • In Bihar, for instance, during the Chhath festival, devotees are required to stand in waist-deep water while paying obeisance to the Sun-god.
  • 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 A Message From the Bush
  • Sometimes they had to wade waist-deep through mud.
  • They waded waist-deep in the grass in a compact body bearing an improvised stretcher in their midst.
  • Passing Boreen Point, home to the historic Apollonian Hotel, famed for its Sunday spit roast, we see stingrays and stonefish in waist-deep Lake Cootharaba.
  • The water's only ankle/knee/waist-deep, so we'll be able to get across the river easily.
  • Rescuers had to wade waist-deep in flood water.
  • The water's only ankle/knee/waist-deep, so we'll be able to get across the river easily.
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