knee-high
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“I can’t convince an entire generation that their most offensive word is now a way to describe knee-high boots!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
We quickly walked into a bed of knee-high sequoias saplings so thick I couldn’t estimate their number.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 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
The woman in front of us at the TSA Security Checkpoint was wearing knee-high combat boots.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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