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  • "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

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