hip
Example Sentences
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Passing through the building’s security, one woman set off a metal detector with her hip, another with her knees.
Over the hips, this structure shifted into a single row of spikes along the tail, with each spike aligned above a vertebra and fitting neatly with its neighbors.
From Science Daily
In North Sumatra's Medan, an AFP photographer saw murky brown floodwaters at hip level, and residents asking drivers passing their inundated homes to drive slowly to avoid splashing them.
From Barron's
“Some of the drills we would do were just jumping off a box, landing on two feet and getting your hips all the way through,” Reed said.
But 30 years ago things were different — the area was hip, but it also felt effortlessly eccentric.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
