Examples of waist-high in a Sentence
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These waist-high beds work amazingly well and are especially good for people who suffer from back or knee issues.
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Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
Flaco’s time in the sky began on Feb. 2, 2023, when someone breached a waist-high fence and slipped into the Central Park Zoo.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2024
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
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
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
People left without food or other essentials waded through waist-high flooding to empty stores for supplies.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
Apart from the big heavy barrier meant to defend against moving vehicles, the mostly waist-high structures will be rather lightly constructed and roofless but for fabric canopies (an umbrella is always an option too).
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Oct. 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
Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
Flaco’s time in the sky began on Feb. 2, 2023, when someone breached a waist-high fence and slipped into the Central Park Zoo.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2024
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
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
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
People left without food or other essentials waded through waist-high flooding to empty stores for supplies.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
Apart from the big heavy barrier meant to defend against moving vehicles, the mostly waist-high structures will be rather lightly constructed and roofless but for fabric canopies (an umbrella is always an option too).
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Oct. 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
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“Waist-high.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waist-high. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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