head-high

Mr. Marlantes puts you in the heads of scared young men walking blindly in column through head-high grass in terror of trip-wires and ambush by enemies fighting on their home turf, or hacking their way through impenetrable bush overwhelmed by fatigue, jungle rot, fear, sickness, tigers and leeches.

Twelve Months of Reading 2011

We followed, and the grass changed to taller reeds, which soon were head-high.

The Wire: David Petzal Tracks a Wounded Cape Buffalo 2009

Sara considered herself in pretty good shape—gym shape, not jungle-running among tree trunks, head-high ferns, and leaves the size of a car shape.

Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

           We'd been driving through head-high cornstalks for what seemed like close to 100 years of complete and utter solitude.

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 3 2010

I said it each time I bogged down in some kind of unidentifiable high-plains brush, or whenever I shouldered my way through head-high shelterbelts.

Deep in the Heart of Roosterland 2008

They may shun the flailing head-high hooks, which saw the demise of Imrul Kayes and Mahmudullah.

Steven Finn and Ajmal Shahzad stake England claims to face Pakistan Vic Marks at Old Trafford 2010

The fierce winds that beat down off the North Sea prevent anything from growing taller than head-high.

No Course Like the Old Course 2010

We pushed through head-high bracken, emerging in meadows filled with harebells and yellow vetches.

Making a romantic splash on a wild swim in Wales 2010

Sitting somewhere between found-object assemblage and eco-friendly design, Coolquitt's works tend toward head-high sticks that lean against the wall, often with fixtures and light bulbs attached -- as though he'd had to cobble together a floor lamp from fragments of old canes, broom handles and piping.

The gallery scene on Manhattan's Lower East Side 2010

Sitting somewhere between found-object assemblage and eco-friendly design, Coolquitt's works tend toward head-high sticks that lean against the wall, often with fixtures and light bulbs attached -- as though he'd had to cobble together a floor lamp from fragments of old canes, broom handles and piping.

The gallery scene on Manhattan's Lower East Side 2010