(1) The grass was waist-high.

(2) The grass had grown waist-high.

(3) On my right, there was a waist-high wall overlooking an aerobics class in full swing one floor below.

(4) Rimmed by a waist-high balustrade, the garden sheers down some twenty feet.

(5) The road cut through a vast cropland, with waist-high corn and sorghum nearby and waves of golden millet in the distance.

(6) Ellwood stood waist-high in the water as Carey floated free.

(7) Firemen waded through waist-high water to pluck 50 more to safety.

(8) Nourse, 14, stands waist-high, when he stands.

(9) Malone stepped close to a waist-high rock wall.

(10) So he jumped into the waist-high water and hit the nenue until it went limp.

(11) Heck, merely standing in waist-high water is a good workout, thanks to the action of the water. And you'll feel so much more alive!

(12) These were waist-high cylindrical mobile robots that skittered around in a flock.

(13) A waist-high table or bench with a rubber mat for your Westie to stand or lay on will make the grooming session more comfortable.

(14) One year, he said, floodwaters were waist-high all the way to Bangkok's 1930s-era Democracy Monument[Sentencedict], more than a kilometer inland.

(15) Heck, merely standing in waist-high water is a good workout, thanks to the action of the water.

(16) Works of literature and philosophy are stacked waist-high next to the desk.

(17) To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high nettles and clumps of bramble.

(18) Margaret Herring, 35, savored the beauty of the Texas countryside --- the afternoon sunlight glinting off amber fields of waist-high grass lining the road.

(19) The Nag Hammadi trove was buried in a heavy, waist-high jar, perhaps by monks from the nearby monasteries of St. Pachomius.

(20) An instant later he was hurled upwards, and held waist-high above the water.

(21) Bran's heart was thumping in his chest as he pushed through a waist-high drift to his brothers' side.

(22) There was also, running the length of the left wall, a giant waist-high cement trough filled with water and dead mosquitoes.

(23) You can be sure we were not unhappy to see the village after six days of trudging through the waist-high snow.

(24) Now we can go into the wild, says Nancy Berliner as we step into a garden overgrown with waist-high weeds in the center of Beijing.