• On Saturday, two people managed to free themselves after getting stuck up to their waists near Lulworth Cove.

    BBC: Dorset mud warning after four people get stuck

  • As the violin intensified, ruby, sapphire and emerald emerged in evening silhouettes, many with nipped waists and gently-puffed sleeves.

    FORBES: Music Comes First, Then The Gowns For Carolina Herrera Fall 2013

  • And she has heavy black wool coats with strong shoulders and fitted waists.

    WSJ: NY Fashion Week: tough, tailored, lots of black

  • Men and women in all the exercise groups trimmed their waists by 2 to 3 centimeters (0.8 to 1.2 inches).

    CNN: Weights plus walking equals more fit in less time

  • Ginny watches them step onto the escalator with their identical ponytails, their small shoulders, their fleeces tied around their waists.

    NEWYORKER: M&M World

  • They fled their home on foot as the water levels reached their waists and have lost most of their belongings.

    BBC: Storm Sandy: should voting be postponed on Staten Island?

  • Girls are typically 2cm taller, with waist measurements up by 8cm, and boys are 4cm taller, with waists up by 7cm.

    BBC: Children 'have wider waists now than in 1978'

  • The new Dior Homme look is more athletic, with cinched waists and broader shoulders filling out the skinny suits of the Slimane era.

    WSJ: Star Track | Dior Homme Fall 2013

  • Every weekday I stood at the table ironing the joining lines of cut pieces, the waists of pants, the collars and cuffs of shirts.

    NEWYORKER: The House Behind a Weeping Cherry

  • In a 2008 study published in the Journal of Women's Health, one in 10 women who underwent various cardiovascular health screenings didn't have their waists measured.

    CNN: The best way to measure body fat

  • As for the clothes, Herrera said she was inspired by the 1940s, especially in the shapes of sleeves and in the small waists of the garments.

    WSJ: Weather's silver lining: coat comfort on runways

  • Nachi no Dengaku is performed by one flute player, four drummers with drums tied around their waists, four players of Binzasara, a musical string instrument, and two others.

    UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

  • Everyone aboard is subjected to periodic blasts of spray, and the crew members who have to work on the leeward side spend half their time up to their waists in water.

    FORBES: Two Sheets to the Wind

  • To make their point, the drill instructors accentuated their tiny waists with belts cinched so tight they had to remove them when sitting in the drill instructor hut so they could breathe.

    WSJ: Acrylic Nails on the Rifle Range

  • Even women carried their own knives out to dinner, and those, being accoutrements to party clothes, hung from their waists in silky sheaths that were as decorative as their dresses, and often just as fragile.

    NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own

  • Clothed in sheepskin throws with bells around their waists and sporting distinctive hats embellished with sprigs of evergreen, two to more than thirty ringers swagger in groups behind a guide carrying a small evergreen tree.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • Kirrily Johnston exemplifies the laid-back Down Under aesthetic with her earthy-urban, feminine clothes (think billowy red skirts with high cinched waists), as does Josh Goot, whose block-printed tube and tunic dresses come in colors as bright as the Sydney sun.

    CNN: Sydney's hip inner-city scene

  • While the thin girls were wearing shorts, I was wearing sweat pants because my thighs were the size of their waists, and those pants were embarrassingly short because I was taller than the average adult, but still shopped at (pre-teen clothing store) Limited Too.

    BBC: Jennie Runk: My life as a 'plus-size' model

  • For a while now, skinny and narrow has been de rigueur (thanks to Hedi Slimane, formerly of Christian Dior fame), but that has left men with, ahem, wider thighs, bigger bottoms and thicker waists looking, well, uncomfortable at best and rather silly at worst.

    WSJ: Tina Gaudoin on Style: The Black and White on Black Tie

  • What this suggests is a natural division of labour: a trouser maker could assemble average-sized khakis in volume in Mexico, but make special sizes such as narrow waists or long inseams in the United States, offering fast turnaround for retailers and less risk of overstocking.

    ECONOMIST: American textiles

  • When the women were asked later to outline their bodies again, those who had read about dating sketched themselves as slimmer, with narrower waists, compared with their earlier drawings, reflecting an effort to "block out any negative information about their bodies" and succeed at the dating game, Dr. Keating says.

    WSJ: The Case for Lying to Yourself

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