waist
Example Sentences
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On either side, men bent at the waist, clearing fruit with one quick sweep of the knife and moving on to the next.
From Los Angeles Times
"I tried to run back to my house to tell my husband, and the water was already reaching my waist," she told AFP.
From Barron's
Murillo said that when he saw the fleeing man, Nicholas Carrillo, reach toward his waist, he feared he would be shot.
From Los Angeles Times
The victim, who did not know her attacker, eventually escaped naked from the waist down to the safety of a taxi.
From BBC
In 1835 Garrison was dragged through the city’s streets with a rope around his waist.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
