knee-high
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
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another word for knee-deep
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as high as the knee
a knee-high child
Etymology
Origin of knee-high
An Americanism dating back to 1735–45
Example Sentences
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Swift, resplendent in a shimmering bejeweled silver bodysuit and matching knee-high boots, beamed at the crowd, because she knew exactly what she was doing.
From Washington Post
Right at the intersection, where trail crews had placed knee-high boulders to funnel hikers to the modern route, the view nearly matched Adams’s photograph.
From New York Times
We all puzzled over the things our parents said when we were “knee-high to a grasshopper.”
From Washington Post
As the call to prayer went out around 4 a.m. on Thursday, the dam gave way and the flooding came, al-Jassim said, covering fields and filling homes with knee-high murky brown water.
From Reuters
She wriggled beneath knee-high barbed wire through the infamous muddy worm pit.
From Washington Post
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