waist-high

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

  • Opposite the kitchen is a server, created from several long building lintels, supported by two brick waist-high walls.
  • Set on waist-high stands, the colorful abstract objects, some with gold and silver metallic glazes, at first suggest zoomorphic shapes or architectural forms.
  • He would already be in double figures but he shelled a waist-high chance, arguably the easiest of the eight that have gone to him at second slip, when Stephen Moore, on 43, drove loosely at Keith Barker in the first innings. Rikki Clarke's fielding of dreams may be all in vain for Warwickshire
  • It took him three hours to wade though waist-high water too deep to take his two children with him.
  • Pushing through the waist-high grass, I made my way slowly upstream to a bend in the river.
  • The grain was waist-high on either side the wagon road, and he sniffed the warm aroma of it with delighted nostrils. Chapter VIII
  • Water was waist-high in one spot a half mile inland on Grand Cayman, the largest of the islands and an important offshore finance centre.
  • Even his bucket hands appeared to have sprung a leak as he put down a waist-high dolly at second slip.
  • In the dining room, American artist Roxy Paine's linen canvas drips with white paint near a life-size sculpture of an obese Asian man belly-flopping onto a waist-high block of faux ice. Art's New Pecking Order
  • The top level was the bridge, where large windows ran from the ceiling to about waist-high and were met by a metal wainscoting that dropped to a special antifatigue rubber floor. 'A Captain's Duty'
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