Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "shoulder-high".
Jamaican troubadour-polemicists, Banana Bird, Cool Runnings, Yellowbelly, live in Bryant Park and on shoulder-high boomboxes up and down Broadway.
On every hand opened tiny vistas of enchantment, where young redwoods grouped still and stately about fallen giants, shoulder-high to the horses, moss-covered and dissolving into mold.
Around them, in many bays half separated from each other by shoulder-high partitions, were clumps of three or four desks, each bay inhabited by telephones, typewriters, potted plants and people in a faint but continuous state of agitation.
With my guns shoulder-high, I reached a stockinged foot out and gave an Adirondack chair a tiny shove, then waited.
The man I took to be John Clemson was standing behind a shoulder-high partition in a white coat, his head bent to his work.
He was in open sunshine, now, with shoulder-high plants about him and the huddled soapstone huts of the village in clear view ahead.
This one was planted with an outsized root crop, and Calhoun walked past shoulder-high bushes with four-inch blue-and-white flowers.
Fern, huckleberry, bearberry, service berry, the shoulder-high broad-leafed thimbleberry, and a plethora of plants Anna couldn't put a name to, tangled in the cross-hatching of rotting timber.
The three headed for a grove of andiroba trees, surrounded by shoulder-high wild cotton weeds.