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How to use waist in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Waist means the part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. Example: “The waist of a bell widens into the lip.”

Examples of waist by meaning

nounThe middle part of anything.

  • The waist of a bell widens into the lip.

More sentences with waist

  • As I lay on my back, a pain shot down from my neck to my waist.From the entry down
  • These trousers are too big around the waist. They won't stay up.From the entry stay up
  • The belt just barely went around his waist.From the entry go
  • She tied an apron around her waist before cooking dinner.From the entry apron
  • To make a pleat, double the material at the waist.From the entry double
  • Add some ease to the waist measurement.From the entry ease
  • Try taking the skirt in a little around the waist.From the entry take in
  • Her hair came down to her waist.From the entry down to
  • A jacket with distinct waist definition.From the entry definition
  • A thin, scarlet-hued gamchha is usually fastened around his waist or wrapped around his head.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 6. From the entry gamucha
  • She wore an appliquéd lace bodice with a ruffle of layered tulle at the waist.2022 March 16, Sean Malin, “Love Is in the Air. So Is Dander.”, in The New York Times. From the entry Brussels griffon
  • The jacket shows off my snatched waist, thanks to the corset underneath.2021 November 10, Lilith McCall, Make You Love Me, After Hours Publications, →ISBN. From the entry snatched waist
  • Her dress was ruched around her waist, and her breasts were bared.2017, Laura Trentham, An Indecent Invitation: Spies and Lovers Book 1, Laura Huskins, →ISBN. From the entry ruche
  • He carried a silver hookah, a dagger, a sword, and a carved knife tied to his waist.2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 45. From the entry mojri
  • A gauzy odhni bright as moonlight covered her head, coming down to her slender waist.2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 151. From the entry odhni
  • Man puts his right arm around woman's waist and turns her with a courtesy turn.2015, Anne M. Pittman, Marlys S. Waller, Cathy L. Dark, Dance a While, page 546. From the entry courtesy turn
  • He reached both hands to her waist and pulled away the lilac-colored garment.2014, R. V. Cassill, Doctor Cobb's Game: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry pink-handed
  • He was wearing the normal jungle fatigues and had a .45 in a holster on his waist.2013, T. Van Ewell, Recon Airplane Company: III Corps, Vietnam, page 182. From the entry .45
  • Bright yellow gowns fit them tightly and umbrellaed from their waist to just below the knees.2011, B. A. Rothwell, The Peaceful Queen, page 31. From the entry umbrella
  • Her dupatta slipped from her shoulders, as he encircled her waist with one hand.2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee. From the entry dupatta
  • She pushed the satin fabric down, toward her waist, exposing her breasts.2010, Jane Porter, The Sheikh's Wife, →ISBN. From the entry bustier
  • He pulled a stray wisp of hair from the thick braid that reached her waist.2010, Jennifer Maruno, Warbird, Napoleon Publishing, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry scissor
  • When I glanced footward, the pack's waist belt was out of sight, overhung with belly.2009, Clive Scott Chisholm, Following the Wrong God Home: Footloose in an American Dream. From the entry footward
  • The Q-switch was placed at the beam waist of the resonator as mentioned before.2009, Soviet Laser Physics - Volume 19, page 1404. From the entry Q-switch
  • Dropping hir forebody down just a little, shi bent over double at the waist.2006, Kenneth Fox, Joined in Mind and Body, Kenneth Fox, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry shi
  • But it was only a dwarf deerling, no taller than Dart's waist.2006, James Clemens, Shadowfall. From the entry deerling
  • She complained about the lip of fat creeping over the waist of her jeans.2005, Cap Lesesne, Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon. From the entry lipo
  • He touched the controller hanging from the belt around his waist.2005, Gregory Bernard Banks, Phoenix Tales: Stories of Death and Life. From the entry hoverchair
  • She pulled the undercloth below her waist and threatened to hit any man who approached her.2000, Nico Kofi Adiku, Azasu: Son of the Hunter, page 46. From the entry undercloth
  • A Yengisar knife is essential for every Uygur man, who wears it slung around his waist.1993, Judy Bonavia, The Silk Road From Xi'an to Kashgar, Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 276. From the entry Yengisar
  • Long brown hair, a widow's peak, very rich green eyes, 42" chest and a 30" waist.1993 August 8, Joan Shields, “chapeaux”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet), archived from the original on 21 Jun 2026. From the entry Glasgowian
  • Baggy pants (pattern M-1); plastic tube or stiff wire through waist casing.1986, Leila Albala, “Clowns”, in Easy Halloween Costumes for Children, 2nd edition, Chambly, Que.: ALPEL, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry clowny
  • For longies, therefore, I cast on sufficiently for the waist, and work a piece of ribbing.1974, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Knitter's Almanac, page 26. From the entry longies
  • Around his waist was a kind of kirtle, the skin of some animal.1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 260. From the entry kirtle
  • She was lavish in build, with great thighs but a slim waist, bathycolpous as any Homeric heroine.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 255. From the entry bathycolpous
  • She gathered her skirts waist high to reveal slim hosed legs, a flash of pale thighs.1954, Howard Breslin, The Silver Oar, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, page 85. From the entry hosed
  • With a lumberjacketed top buttoned close at the waist, wrist, with deep armholes.1950 January 25, “A Toni Drake Fashion”, in Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, volume 45, number 175, page 10. From the entry lumberjacketed
  • A porterbottle stood up, stogged to its waist, in the cakey sand dough.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 41. From the entry stogged
  • Around Jose's waist was the cartridge-belt and holster that went with the weapon.1915, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 7, in Heart of the Sunset. From the entry service revolver

Meaning of waist

  1. noun The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
  2. noun A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.
  3. noun The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps).

Full definition of waist

Questions about waist in a sentence

How do you use waist in a sentence?
Waist is used as a noun. For example: “The waist of a bell widens into the lip.”
What is a short sentence with waist?
“A jacket with distinct waist definition.”
What does waist mean?
Waist means the part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waist (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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