Today, I finally rolled up my sleeves and got hip-deep in PERL.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dealing With Insane, Yet Efficient, People] Reference

He was standing hip-deep in a fountain in the middle of a park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodthirst] Reference

OpEdNews - Article: McCain in hip-deep in Georgian lobbyists pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain in hip-deep in Georgian lobbyists pocket] Reference

Now, 239 years later, we're hip-deep again in swarms of bureaucrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [HCAN, AFSCME turn sights on critics of Obama plan] Reference

Mrs. Pelosi is hip-deep in dangerous waters, and they are rapidly rising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congress and Waterboarding] Reference

But for the moment, I'm still hip-deep in SF paperbacks and wine glasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movin' Right Along] Reference

He swears to avenge his sister, and is soon hip-deep in occult conspiracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

 The backyard of my home was a steep hill covered in hip-deep ivy and bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Oppressed me with Kindness] Reference

Verin had put herself hip-deep in the affairs of the world by being with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Reborn]

Action, as he recalled in his memoir, that left him hip-deep in spent bullets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghosts of Broadcast Journalism Past] Reference

Kahvi slowly got off the boat and stood hip-deep, still looking for her husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nitrogen Fix]

He was only hip-deep in water, but he was shivering, his hands hugging his elbows.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Ashes] Reference

For the first time I noticed that the place was hip-deep in vases of tropical flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

If you build a seriously green house, and you're hip-deep in the process, you'll change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth Day: 10 lessons for building a green house] Reference

I was hip-deep in hostage interview reports when the phone on my desk rang two hours later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Step on a Crack]

She's not only pretty poison, she's gonna find herself hip-deep in alligators real soon now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born To Run]

And then farther to the left, over here, it's at least thigh-deep or maybe hip-deep in water.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005] Reference

Snow lay hip-deep like sand; the mountain had been transformed by nature into a desert of ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Ninja]

May I never wade hip-deep into either snark or the last fifteen years of King's writings again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kings of Chaos request] Reference

If we've got to have someone killed or hurt for each name we cut, we'll soon be hip-deep in blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heirs of Babylon]

She stands hip-deep and motionless in the shallow end of the water, waiting for him to come to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber] Reference

We are hip-deep in the shipping of our December ish, so posting has sort of slowed to a standstill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » 2009 » October] Reference

Now that I'm hip-deep in The Sims 2, I'm starting to view my own life as if it were a Sims character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would You Like To Play A Game?] Reference

I have to say, as someone who's been hip-deep in this for years, the alternatives that I see are few.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zimmerman’s Dev Rights] Reference

Instead of working, I spent most of my time falling down on the ice, hip-deep in snow and distinctly drowsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography]

And it gradually expanded and expanded to the point where I was hip-deep, immersed in the newspaper business.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Whistle Stop to Sound Bite] Reference

He was reminded of all those times during the war when he and the others had been forced to wade through hip-deep mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Krynn]

I've got no overwhelming desire to wade through knee-deep (and in some cases, hip-deep) snow until absolutely needful.    From Wordnik.com.  [and lo, the snow stopped and the skies cleared...] Reference

The issues in doing this successfully are staggering; very smart people have gotten hip-deep in this and had to back off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Solution to Griefing is... The FBI?] Reference

Tremane's aides were far more used to military situations than to the diplomatic ones they now found themselves hip-deep in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Breaking]

Clinging to each other, with the smallest of the children on Hawkinson's shoulders, the crew slogged through the hip-deep water.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Survive in the Ocean When Your Boat is Sinking] Reference

Moreover, the Himalayas were having their wettest spring in 20 years; hip-deep powder and ice had already driven us off one ridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mccoy Photo | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

As I've written before, we're hip-deep into the process of our second adoption - this one from China, rather than here in Colorado.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exultate Justi] Reference

People say the 6-foot-3, 280-pound Greco-Roman wrestler trains by running in hip-deep Siberian snow with logs tucked under each arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who To Watch] Reference

I'm not going to I-Con because ... well, because I'll be in New Haven by then, and hip-deep in redecorating and manuscript deadlines.    From Wordnik.com.  [convention schedules] Reference