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

Down in the nullah, the jungle was green and dense, but in the open area in front of me the trees had lost their leaves, and the only cover was dead, waist-high grass. — Leslie E. Tassell, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2026

In Elizabeth, on North Avenue near Spring Street, flooding was nearly waist-high. — Andrew Ramos, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026

Nothing but verdant grey hills, sheep, and waist-high walls of ancient stones that vanished into the vastness of the landscape. — Literary Hub, 22 July 2026

Most of Martha’s dahlia plants are about knee- to waist-high already. — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 21 July 2026

Rhymes for waist-high

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