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• r  up to the waist
  the water rose waist-high

• Working in pairs, one student cut into the bulb of a waist-high plant and the other scraped the sticky white resin into a cup supplied by the North Korean government.
• It's basically just a waist-high piece of furniture that has a Bible or whatever sacred text the individual has for their particular religion.
• A waist-high flood of stinking water and mud seeped turgidly through the waterfront streets.

• waist-deep

News & Articles

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• FDNY Rescues Worker Trapped In Mud At Queens Construction Site
  Yesterday afternoon, a worker at a construction site in Kew Gardens, Queens was stuck waist-high in a mud trench for three hours. The FDNY managed to pull him out, after utilizing numerous tools, including a vactor truck from Con Edison that vacuumed out mud. [ more › ]
  June 19, 2013 - Gothamist
• Report: Hoffa hit with shovel, buried alive
  A second day of digging in a Detroit field yielded no sign of the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. Undeterred, authorities will resume their hunt Wednesday morning. Agents began digging Monday in waist-high grass in Oakland Township north of Detroit, a location determined in part from information provided by alleged mobster Tony Zerilli. Media and curious onlookers gathered some ...
  June 19, 2013 - KSAT San Antonio
• Source: 'Highly credible' info led to new Hoffa dig; murder put on Detroit mob
  The FBI -- working on information from an aging reputed mobster -- began digging in the waist-high grass of a Detroit-area field Monday in yet another search for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, according to a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation.
  June 18, 2013 - CNN

Quotes

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• St Ambrose in Asbury Park Press
  About five of us just started to dig a hole to bury it,said Pat Ambrose, an 18-year-old Toms River resident and one of the lifeguards at the scene. "The hole was waist-high, and we put the blubber in there."
• Johnny Damon in New York Times
  This feels like a lot more pain,Damon said. "Less mobility with my shoulder. I probably couldn't lift it waist-high before I start feeling pain."