shoulder-high

adjective

: reaching as high as a person's shoulder

a shoulder-high wall

Examples of shoulder-high in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The dog park has shoulder-high fencing but is completely outdoors. —Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025

To her right teeters a shoulder-high pile of cardboard boxes. —Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 16 June 2025

The players, new heroes, were carried off shoulder-high. —Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025

The next pitch was shoulder-high, easily ball four, but Chourio could not resist. —Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024

Along its back wall, four cubicles were separated by white partitions, about shoulder-high. —Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024

The shoulder-high fastball only served to set up the next pitch, an 85 mph changeup that snapped back over the inside corner and sailed past Ohtani’s bat. —Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 23 July 2024

After being abandoned to shoulder-high weeds for nearly a decade, the former elementary school site in Woodland Hills is now a target for development. —Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023

Today, shoulder-high grasses wave in the wind and attract wildlife. —Jane Margolies, New York Times, 1 June 2023

Rhymes for shoulder-high

• abscissae
• alibi
• alkali
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• amoebae
• amplify
• annuli
• beautify
• brachii
• butterfly
• calculi
• certify