knee-high
Example Sentences
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The minutes-long standstill forced several people into the street; many more, including my husband and his cane, engaged in a potentially perilous stutter-step around the two knee-high, randomly moving yet noncommunicative vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
In Nyakach, in the west, children walked through knee-high water and residents scooped water from inundated houses -- though some were submerged up to the roof.
From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026
The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
Or the time when she appeared next to Belichick on the sidelines on game day wearing a reptile mini-skirt and knee-high boots.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026
She raised her foot, knee-high, and smacked the ball right out of the air into the net.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
