waist-high

adjective

: reaching as high as a person's waist

waist-high corn

Examples of waist-high in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The waters — waist-high in some places — will only get higher with the Ohio River set to crest in the area Wednesday, but some residents have chosen to stay and brave whatever else happens overnight. —Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025

The driveway gate of the waist-high chain-link fence dividing the front yard from the sidewalk was bent and mangled, lashed to a metal fence pole with white rope. —Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025

On the floor, waist-high piles of books tottered like miniature leaning towers of Pisa. My father has always been an avid learner and reader. —The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2025

Video clips posted online depict Babbitt, wearing a stars and stripes backpack and a Trump flag draped around her neck, stepping up and beginning to go through the waist-high opening of an area of the Capitol known as the Speaker’s Lobby when a gunshot is heard. —Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2025

Rhymes for waist-high

• apply
• awry
• belie
• bely
• bigeye
• bonsai
• buckeye
• comply
• coxae
• decry
• defy
• deny