shoulder-high

"It's tough because as a hitter, when you see a ball up there," Wright said as he held his hand about shoulder-high, "you think it's going to end up kind of here," he said, bringing his hand down to his belt.

The Best Optical Illusion in Baseball Brian Costa 2011

Tendulkar was carried shoulder-high around the ground in celebration by his young team-mates as though a symbol, draped in the Indian flag, of how he has carried the hopes of a nation for so long.

India's defeat of Sri Lanka feels like a destiny fulfilled | Mike Selvey 2011

Five trails flanked by shoulder-high bushes ran away from the main hospital buildings like spokes of a wheel, leading to five thatched-roof bungalows that were all but hidden by copse, by hedgerows, by wild eucalyptus and pine.

Excerpt: Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese 2009

As local police recently learned, it is also a convenient place to dump a victim, with its shoulder-high brush.

New Bones in Killing Probe Sean Gardiner 2011

Most of the workers were relegated to subterranean office space divided by shoulder-high cubicles.

Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

Cottonwoods along the rivers made the tallest vegetative layer, and on the surrounding prairies grew shoulder-high sage and greasewood, punctuated by the bunchgrasses close to the ground.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Where the river Browney meets the Wear, the path plunged between ancient oaks and shoulder-high stands of butterbur leaves.

Country diary: Low Burnhall, Durham 2011

It was a noble valley, now shut in by high canyon walls, and again opening out into beautiful stretches, wide and long, with pasture shoulder-high in the bottoms, meadows dotted with flowers, and with clumps of timberspruce – virgin and magnificent.

The Night-Born 2010

Most of the workers were relegated to subterranean office space divided by shoulder-high cubicles.

Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

Cottonwoods along the rivers made the tallest vegetative layer, and on the surrounding prairies grew shoulder-high sage and greasewood, punctuated by the bunchgrasses close to the ground.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011