How To Use Waist-high In A Sentence
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Opposite the kitchen is a server, created from several long building lintels, supported by two brick waist-high walls.
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Set on waist-high stands, the colorful abstract objects, some with gold and silver metallic glazes, at first suggest zoomorphic shapes or architectural forms.
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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
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It took him three hours to wade though waist-high water too deep to take his two children with him.
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Pushing through the waist-high grass, I made my way slowly upstream to a bend in the river.
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The grain was waist-high on either side the wagon road, and he sniffed the warm aroma of it with delighted nostrils.
Chapter VIII
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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.
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Even his bucket hands appeared to have sprung a leak as he put down a waist-high dolly at second slip.
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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
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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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It has oak trees that are hundreds of years old, towering cottonwoods and sycamores and secluded areas where acres of trunk-to-trunk pecan trees haven't yet grown waist-high.
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Anyone planning to go on this walk should think seriously about wearing long trousers or protective gaiters because the hillsides in this part of Mount Mee State Forest have a waist-high covering of a spiky shrub called bitter pea.
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The waist-high fence might rein in the majority of Chinese citizens; but, today, more Chinese than ever before were interested in seeing what was on the other side.
Gilliam Collinsworth Hamilton: China's Waist-High Fence
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Tomaz continued, alone, plowing through waist-high snowdrifts, to the 26,504-foot summit.
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The bracken, waist-high at first, was like small hoops at the top of the wood, where the tiny golden tormentil made a carpet and the yellow pimpernel was closing her eager eyes.
Gone to Earth
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On my right, there was a waist-high wall overlooking an aerobics class in full swing one floor below.
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At the broad landing at the top the altar was about waist-high, and now for the first time they made out that at the back there was a big sitting figure, whose breast seemed to be covered with a kind of rayed shield; but everything was indistinct in the flickering light, and the figure was absolutely clothed in dust.
Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig
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In one report we had an Olympic swimming pool holding a meagre 1000 megalitres - a waist-high depth that would becalm Eamon Sullivan ( 'Angel', 4, drowns as plastic dam wall fails, page 17, November 25).
Craig Silverman: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections 2008
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The grass was waist-high and higher, and as she rode along she remembered that Gogoomy was one of a gang of boys that had been detailed to the grass-cutting.
Chapter 22
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The £300,000 scheme will see waist-high pedestrian railings replaced with metal and timber safety fencing in accordance with Government guidelines.
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The decor is rustic-elegant, with waist-high wooden paneling and cream walls.
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The house faced the lane, set back behind a waist-high stone wall and a large garden filled with flowering plants and roses.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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Pushing through the crowds is like wading through waist-high water.
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The decor is rustic-elegant, with waist-high wooden paneling and cream walls.
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The thyme and sage bruised by the tramping feet censed them with aromatics; the uncurled bracken stood waist-high; heather and sorrel purpled the moors.
Funeral Games
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We waded out waist-high, then lay on our backs, just floating with the current.
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We cut a long, winding path through the jungle, wading through rivers that were waist-high, until we reached canyon with hundreds of slaves.
Joshua Kors: Q&A With Lisa Kristine, Photographer of Slaves
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It was enclosed by a circular stone wall, waist-high, with mossy steps leading down to the pool, and was filled with clear water.
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The deck was flush to the edge with only a waist-high wire guard rail strung along the tops of plastic posts.
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By Memorial Day, the unforested land between the house and the woods is waist-high in weeds.
Tina Traster: A Hill of a Job
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‘Coastal slope grazing should help to ensure that the sites are not lost under waist-high scrub again,’ Polly added.
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It has oak trees that are hundreds of years old, towering cottonwoods and sycamores and secluded areas where acres of trunk-to-trunk pecan trees haven't yet grown waist-high.
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On the near side of a waist-high beaverboard counter, a jeans-clad lady fussed to firm up further arrangements.
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I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
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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
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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!
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‘I could see the flag but I had to hit it about waist-high coming out of there,’ he said.
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But the main barrier is the land itself, an expanse of sun-whitened, heat-hazed bajada telescoping the waist-high vegetation to nothing.
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Majestic and aloof it soared, dwarfing all near it -- the termitary which, yesterday, had been but waist-high.
The Raid on the Termites
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Onside from three yards out, he tries to stab a waist-high opportunity past Mark Schwarzer in the Australia goal and misses it completely.
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Padlin stumbled into the pack of bettors clustered at the waist-high fence.
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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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He was put to work digging a quarter-acre section of waist-high grass.
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One year, he said, floodwaters were waist-high all the way to Bangkok's 1930s-era Democracy Monument, more than a kilometer inland.
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The rest of the kitchen has a bank of waist-high units, which conceal a washing machine and dishwasher.
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Students carry measuring instruments down a ditch, through waist-high grass, and wade into the stream to measure stream flow and water clarity.
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Prime Minister Patrick Manning addressed an audience of residents there who were standing in water waist-high.
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On Monday, two local fishermen were found waist-high in water after being cut off by the tide on rocks off the coast at Heysham.
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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.
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Eventually, the barricades would be replaced by waist-high partitions made of vertical rows of blue plastic piping several inches in diameter.
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Tomaz continued, alone, plowing through waist-high snowdrifts, to the 26,504-foot summit.
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The method that the Chinese government employs to manage breaking news communicated instantly on the Internet is about as effective as a waist-high fence.
Gilliam Collinsworth Hamilton: China's Waist-High Fence
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Bran's heart was thumping in his chest as he pushed through a waist-high drift to his brothers' side.
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Waist-high colonies of red campion alternate with leggy stalks of buttercup and bright eaves of flowering honeysuckle; dog roses sprinkle their pink, aromatic ladders from high hedge-tops.
Country diary: Anglesey
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It is worn with the fermizi, a jacket of velvet or serge with long sleeves that is thrown over the back; waist-high white stockings; and a shirt with wide sleeves made of cotton, muslin, or silk.
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Occasionally we stop to rescue others who have crashed in the waist-high snow drifts.
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Nigerian-born striker Emmanuel Olisadebe, a muscular star who had been virtually invisible in the first two games, blasted in a waist-high right-footer from point-black range.
Wacky World Cup Continues
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Heck, merely standing in waist-high water is a good workout, thanks to the action of the water.
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the water rose waist-high
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Those who resisted were hanged, broken on the wheel, sent to the fortress of Toulon where the water was waist-high.
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Fredrik Ljungberg was running with the ball when Olof Mellberg decided that he needed a little practice in the art of the waist-high tackle.
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Half the knickers in my underwear drawer are heavy-duty, waist-high affairs which profess to give you a smooth behind.
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Tomaz continued, alone, plowing through waist-high snowdrifts, to the 26,504-foot summit.