Usage examples (37)

• Her bowsprit dove under, burying Jim almost breast-deep, spoiling his aim.
• The snow fell breast-deep, and was followed by a pelting rain which killed his mules by scores.
• The man who preceded me was only thigh-deep, but the disturbance caused by his feet made it breast-deep for me.
• A stately sweep of dark deep water, with a high-wooded bank of rock on the farther side, and ample wading ground on your own, with pleasantly shingled bottom perhaps, and a...