waist-deep
Speech parts
1. waist-deep - Adjective
2. waist-deep - Adverb
Meaning
up to the waist
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Examples
the water rose waist-high
A16-year-old boy was taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs after he was trapped between debris in waist-deep water for two hours after falling into the Allyn River in the Hunter region while canoeing on Sunday.
“It’s an extraordinary landscape, the trees that drowned, it was quite desolate from the floods and rain, we’re not talking waist-deep flooding, but ankle-deep, walking through mud and rain into the Kelly House.
Backstage behind a thin bamboo screen, around 20 puppeteers slosh around waist-deep in rubber overalls wielding the marionettes with long rods.
Competitors waited in waist-deep water for their wave, took a couple strokes and then did their best to perform on the 700-meter race track.