waist-high

adjective

: reaching as high as a person's waist
waist-high corn

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One man was able to wrench the doors open and allow everyone inside to escape into the waist-high floodwaters in their parking garage, surveillance video showed. — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026 While attending the grand opening of the Skims flagship store in London, Kardashian turned heads in a figure-hugging corset dress, complete with a waist-high leg slit. — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 18 Sep. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for waist-high

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“Waist-high.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waist-high. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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