What is "waist-high"

Usage examples of "waist-high".

The moors stretched away under the racing clouds, hummocky and drenched, grown over with dense stands of waist-high bracken and purple islands of springy headier, slashed with fast-running peaty streams and dotted with stands of windblasted juniper and cypress and bright green domes of bog moss.

The only thing separating brave joggers from a fifty-foot fall into the Intracoastal Waterway was a waist-high guardrail.

Parker tied the ropes with slipknots to the railing waist-high beside the catwalk, then removed the metal weights from their wooden racks tied to the ropes.

Zoe knew there was no point in struggling so she allowed herself to be laid on a waist-high workbench and leather straps fastened around her limbs in matching fashion to the Boston blonde who hung upside down, her steely blue eyes watching her with silent sympathy.

The thundercracks echoed across the fields towards the wood, and before the sound of the last died the Hyerne were charging at a bounding run through the waist-high wheat, plumes nodding, whetted spearheads glinting, cocked back over their right shoulders.

Open as Wheatland, pastured with green waist-high grass, hemmed in by the forest, it stretched ahead of them for nearly two miles.

The medirobot, the size and shape of a waist-high coffin, ran on its own beltlike tracks.

It had waist-high counters against the walls, with panels above and below indicating storage.

Walking slowly along the main hallway, Ryan passed a guard station with a pile of loose clothing and bones behind a waist-high Plexiglas barrier.

She had purchased antique ticks and had them restitched to plump atop her waist-high Queen Anne bed.

He pushed through the waist-high plants with their skunklike smell, slipped in mud that grew deeper with each step.

The level field of waist-high grass sloped gradually up to the steppes on the right, but it narrowed and the incline steepened toward the far end of the valley until it became the other wall of a narrow gorge.

Stepping to the edge of the waist-high yellow tape stretching from the corner of the Nightwood Bar to the Casbah Motel, she evaluated the area.

Clearly, we weren't traveling anywhere quickly, and there was no point in trying, not when the road wasn't even visible except in the higher and more exposed places where the wind had swept the snow off in order to build waist-high drifts-if not higher-in the depressions.

There was a waist-high circle of clipped hedge ten meters before them.