Day after day the men worked under a burning sun, throwing up the immense walls of earth, or toiled standing to their waists in water, building bridges.
Flamingus is to go fer them to the rectry to-night, and you're to go to Miss King's and get the waists she has to be did up.
Still the snow was dry and light, and standing up to their waists in it, they shovelled it to right and left, making a passageway through it that led towards their nearest wood supply.
Languid and sparkling faces coquetted with caballeros in bright calico jackets and knee-breeches laced with silken cord, their slender waists girt with long sashes hanging gracefully over the left hip.
Imagine her talking about my one poor old last year's collar, and then flaunting around in two shirt-waists right before our eyes.
She never wears corsets and never makes her waists long enough, so there is always a streak of gray undershirt visible about her waist.
Again and again Russian troops, attempting operations on ground covered with two or three days' snowfall, had sunk to their waists and chests into the snow and had become easy prey to attacks made by German soldiers on skis.
The nature of the ground here was so marshy that in places the Turks sank to their waists in muddy ooze, and foredoomed their attack to failure.
We ourselves were standing in the midst of them up to our waists in water.
Carelton and myself, up to our waists in water, and the Americans, chatting together as unconcernedly as if they had been sitting under the roofs of their own blockhouses.
Elbow sleeves and light summer waists have led many a girl to daily bathing of at least those parts of the body that other people see.
Everyone wears them; even babies have stiffened waists to support their weak little backs," began Mrs. Clara, rushing to the defence of the pet delusion of most women.
In one corner four girls with rumpled shirt-waists and dusty golf stockings squabbled over scores, and illustrated with spoons preferred methods of driving and putting.
A group of last year's graduates standing at the back in party-cloaks, with a few of the Mob in shirt-waists and make-up.
Little shop-girls were trailing listlessly home, their hats crooked, their black waists limp with perspiration, their hair hanging about their pale faces in shiny, damp strings.
Now it just depends what size the jet is, and how fast the water is issuing, whether these waists are about four and a half diameters apart in the cylinder.
If these waistsare to be really fresh and fit for wear, a new one must be put on every day, and that is an expense that the wearers clearly can not afford.
The hostess at a luncheon may wear a white lingerie dress, one of her guests will be in a shirt-waist costume, a second in white satin and the rest in quiet silks or in elegant chiffon waists and cloth or velvet skirts.
Three times did the Roman army cross, and three times was it compelled to recross it, fighting up to their waists in the blood-reddened waters.
They adorn their waists with sea-shell and cocoanut shell ornaments, whilst the fibre of the palm serves for a waistband.
She took it off now and fastened it round the waists of three of her schoolfellows, linking them together in the manner of Swiss mountaineers.
We all held on to each others' waists like grim death, and Janie Potter gave way and broke their chain, so we won!
Orders for "Imperial" waists were shipped to-day to give place to new orders to be shipped to-morrow.
Was it likely that the manufacturer of "Imperial" waists would go about asking his girls to return to him?
They would walk in up to their waists very often; but they only laughed at it, and the doctor more than any.
The travellers followed a deep ravine, up to their waists in snow, and perspiring violently in spite of the intense cold.
Before you start home, come in; I've made two littlewaists for the children from a pattern Tilly lent me the last time she was in.
Give Tilly my love and tell her if the waists don't fit I can take them in or let them out.
The contractors occupied all of the second floor, the two floors above being used by certain Jewish makers of shirt-waists and skirts, and an Italian establishment for the dry-cleaning of clothing.
The rocks reached, the two Italian men, their yellow faces stamped with agony, were ready up to their waists in water to take the girl ashore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
