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  • It reminded one of the tank of the New York Hippodrome, when the long lines of stage soldiers march down into the water, knee-high, hip-high, shoulder-high, then heads under and are gone.

    Mexico's Army and Ours 2010

  • Tony does the Tom Cruise drop, while Chynna's hip-high slit is Hemming: Impossible.

    Dancing with the Stars Episode Recap: Monday, Oct. 10, 2011 2011

  • Beth ran with the others toward the clumps of rocks that rose perhaps hip-high from the sand.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  •  The bus kids stuck hands and arms and the occasional head out metal-rimmed windows until old Mr. Molak pushed the hip-high gearshift forward and yelled, “Watchiiit!” before hauling them away from the curb.

    Trust Walk Kimberly Ford 2010

  • The road was lined with more than a dozen ruined mosques and churches, but the rubble was hidden in hip-high elephant grass; canary-yellow morning glories climbed the old foundations.

    God’s Country 2008

  • The road was lined with more than a dozen ruined mosques and churches, but the rubble was hidden in hip-high elephant grass; canary-yellow morning glories climbed the old foundations.

    God’s Country 2008

  • Finished panels were manually slid to the stacker by the last press operator using a hip-high metal chute.

    Unfit - IV 2010

  • He drifts on to Akmal's pads again her whips it away, a kind of hip-high half-pull for another four.

    England v Pakistan – as it happened! 2010

  •     Riding along the beach a decade after Camille, my parents would point out the empty and grown-over lots that were testaments to that storm — nothing but live oaks, hip-high weeds and cement steps leading nowhere.

    The Cone of Uncertainty 2010

  • The first house, on their left, had three zombies on the other side of a hip-high chain-link fence.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

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