Breast-high (Adverb)
Meaning
Up to the breast; "we were standing breast-high in the water".
Examples
- They were wading in the river, knee-deep in some areas and breast-high in others.
- The swimmers splashed around in the pool, laughing as the kids jumped in breast-high to play.
- Standing breast-high in the ocean, she felt tiny and insignificant against the powerful waves.
- The level of water in the wave pool peaked at chest-high but at times became breast-high.
- Children played in the shallows, waist-deep and breast-high in the still sea.