How to Use waist-high in a Sentence

waist-high

adjective

• At the end of the day, Bood’s boats will be waist-high with kelp.
  — Kathleen Hou, ELLE, 3 Mar. 2023
• The coffin was at the mouth of the hearse, resting waist-high on a stand, the lid unscrewed and sitting on top.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The second showed two middle schoolers tending to a waist-high sapling.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 6 May 2024
• Nothing feels tired about a floor-length sequin gown with contrasting white cups on the bodice and a nearly waist-high slit—and that's the point.
  — Halie Lesavage, harpersbazaar.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• Where a waist-high wall gives way to dueling bullpens, which sit below stacks of grandstands.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
• About 500 feet from his apartment, the car gave out in the nearly waist-high water early Wednesday evening.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
• In late May 2024, weeds around the building were waist-high, plywood and drywall draped some of the windows, and stone from the facade had fallen off.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2024
• Snowmelt from the mountains is feeding the frigid floodwater, which was waist-high Wednesday in some homes near a breach in the Tule River.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• Streets and sidewalks meander past lots that were once meant for houses but now have only bits of trash and waist-high weeds.
  — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• To get free, Little Joe cleared a 12-foot-deep moat, got past an electrified wire, over a waist-high glass barrier, and out of the zoo pavilion.
  — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• The game’s waist-high cabinet featured four large buttons on the top, which lit up in random sequence; the player had to push the buttons in the same order.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
• Unflappable as always, Pavelski contorted his body while on one skate and slapped the waist-high puck toward the far post and into the net.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2023
• The Middle-Size League uses a full-size soccer ball and onboard perception on waist-high wheeled robots.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
• Across the street, three girls — all apparently younger than 12 — waded into the waist-high water, laughing and filming videos on their phones.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• These waist-high beds work amazingly well and are especially good for people who have back and knee issues.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• On the third floor, behind a door wedged open with a roll of toilet paper, a young man stared up from a mattress on the floor, unable to cross his tiny room through a waist-high pile of items, with a bicycle on the top.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• The floodwaters here were slightly shallower, waist-high, but Nyaguey and the others worked from a crouch, keeping their arms below the water, fighting to break the apple-sized bulbs from the stems.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• The glittering green dress featured a plunging neckline, waist-high slit and a graphic of a figure hitting a tennis ball with a racket.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
• At the time, Kardashian posed in a slinky asymmetrical dress featuring a nearly waist-high leg slit and huge sculptural cutouts all over the chest, stomach, and thigh.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 July 2023
• The aisle boasted waist-high delphinium florals all designed by the bride’s mother and the service was framed by two English oak trees that were planted just for the occasion.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2024
• Investigators located two gunshot holes about waist-high just to the right of where the victims were standing when Klaff Jr. fired his gun, as well as two gunshot holes on the wall above the kitchen door.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 28 May 2024
• These waist-high beds work amazingly well and are especially good for people who suffer from back or knee issues.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
• Jennifer Lopez answers that question with a Valentino dress featuring nearly waist-high side slits.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 7 June 2023
• While under anesthesia for an upcoming dental surgery, Mila fell from a waist-high bench and suffered a lethal spinal injury.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• Along nearby Sylvester Street, about half a dozen vacant homes have been torn down and just one ramshackle house remains, with peeling siding, sagging roof and surrounded by waist-high weeds, trees and a thriving rose bush.
  — Corey Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
• She was discovered 32 miles south of where she was last seen after the family’s car was caught up in waist-high water when Houghs Creek in Upper Makefield overflowed after up to 6 inches of rain fell over two hours.
  — Jo Ciavaglia, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• The rainfall has destroyed thousands of homes and businesses as water sat waist-high in some areas of the state, and Montpelier is currently under a boil water notice.
  — Time, 11 July 2023
• Thousands of homes are damaged in Florida – some with shredded walls and roofs, others with murky, waist-high floodwater that officials warn could be dangerous for days to come.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
• People left without food or other essentials waded through waist-high flooding to empty stores for supplies.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• Videos posted on social media showed cars being engulfed and swept away by stormwater and people wading through waist-high water on neighborhood streets.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024