WAIST in a Sentence

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For WAIST, below is one of 136 sentences:
And as for her waist--there was no one in Fayetteville, Jonesboro or in three counties, for that matter, who had so small a waist.

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 Meanings and Examples of WAIST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
waist
 n.  the part of the human body below the ribs and above the hips
Classic Sentence: (125 in 9 pages)
1  The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  They noticed for the first time how her green eyes danced, how deep her dimples were when she laughed, how tiny her hands and feet and what a small waist she had.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  These twin lines of somber trees were his, his the abandoned lawn, waist high in weeds under white-starred young magnolia trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  And as for her waist--there was no one in Fayetteville, Jonesboro or in three counties, for that matter, who had so small a waist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  The thought of her waist brought her back to practical matters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  The green muslin measured seventeen inches about the waist, and Mammy had laced her for the eighteen-inch bombazine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  Mammy pulled and jerked vigorously and, as the tiny circumference of whalebone-girdled waist grew smaller, a proud, fond look came into her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  Maybelle Merriwether went toward the next booth on the arm of the Zouave, in an apple- green tarlatan so wide that it reduced her waist to nothingness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Her waist is as big as a cow's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  He was dressed in black broadcloth, a tall man, towering over the officers who stood near him, bulky in the shoulders but tapering to a small waist and absurdly small feet in varnished boots.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  "If you hadn't been brave enough to do it, I would never have been either," said Melly, putting her arm about Scarlett's waist and giving her a gentle squeeze.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  She wrapped the bright lengths about his slender waist, above his belt, and tied the ends in a lover's knot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  Then his arms went around her waist and shoulders and she felt the hard muscles of his thighs against her body and the buttons of his coat pressing into her breast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  She untied the waist tape and slipped it down over her feet, crushing the soft linen folds between her hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Her faded calico dress was open to the waist and her large bronze breast exposed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  She fastened the belt loosely around her waist.
2  The skirt was too big around the waist.
3  These trousers are a bit tight around my waist.
4  His wide chest tapers to a small waist.
5  She wore a wide belt round her waist.
6  Slowly bend from the waist and bring your head down to your knees.
7  The accident left her paralyzed from the waist down.
8  The seabed suddenly dropped away and I was waist deep in the water.
9  Bend from the waist, thus.
10  She was quite a child, perhaps seven or eight years old, slightly built, with a pale, small-featured face, and a redundancy of hair falling in curls to her waist.
11  Without speaking, without smiling, without seeming to recognize in me a human being, he only twined my waist with his arm and riveted me to his side.