Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As high as the waist.
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- adjective as high as would reach to the
waist (of a standing person)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb up to the waist
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Examples
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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 Gilliam Collinsworth Hamilton 2010
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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 Gilliam Collinsworth Hamilton 2010
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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 Joshua Kors 2011
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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 2010
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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 2011
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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 Joshua Kors 2011
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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 Joshua Kors 2011
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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 Kelly Crow 2012
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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 Joshua Kors 2011
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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 2010
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