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Example sentences for: waist

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WC:AC ratio was removed from the anthropometric measurements because the concept of waist circumference, waist to hip ratio or waist circumference to arm circumference was unknown or not used to quantify central adiposity.
No one died, evidently because he aimed below the waist.
The arrival of white, frilly panties caused a stir, especially since many were "open drawers"--that is, pants made as two separate knee-length legs, hung on a single drawstring around the waist but with no fore-and-aft crotch seam.
At a 1972 rally in Laurel, Md., he was shot by a deranged man and paralyzed from the waist down--one campaign scene we see in detail.
Above the waist, we might see an asymmetrical patch of salmon pink and another of black making one breast look heavy and the other one look absent; or we can see the simple black-velvet scoop-neck top above the fluttering yellow silk skirt worn by Oksana Kazakova, the two colors perfectly balanced by the two flashing white skates below.