He leveled his torch into the foot-deep, meter-square space that was revealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox Evil]

Below it, dead wasps lay in a foot-deep hill on the warped cypress floorboards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duma Key]

On the floor was a foot-deep cushion of rotten wood and plants—and animal carcasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly] Reference

It took hours of backbreaking work just to carve out a foot-deep depression in the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Do-or-Die Men] Reference

An MTA spokesman said the elevator became stuck about halfway through a 103-foot-deep shaft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long Ride at 181st Street] Reference

Inside is a foot-deep mound of sludge covered with plates, a television and an upended stove.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Shelters, Lives Are Off-Kilter] Reference

More for having been a greedy, obliging bagman in the foot-deep sleaze of Chicago for so many years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Richard taking as good as no pains to avoid the foot-deep, cast-iron ruts, the lumpy rocks and stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultima Thule] Reference

I crawled in the foot-deep grass, pressing my nose in the dampness, my nose the runner, my head the sled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chickenhawk]

This time it was a midnight-blue silk whose hem was embroidered with an elaborate foot-deep scroll of gold thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey Into Love]

The woodies flushed, squealing in protest at our arrival as we waded in to set the lawn chairs in foot-deep water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Guns] Reference

Despite that and the foot-deep covering most of the sidewalks, we ventured out into Time Square at two in the morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

He was forced to remain stationary more than a week, and when he renewed the march the trains were clogged by mud foot-deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference

I pick my way on to the flat plain of the marsh, and on through the foot-deep, salt marsh grasses and greyish-green sea purslane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Holme Dunes, Norfolk] Reference

Finding a cold mountain stream, he stepped into the foot-deep water, which hissed and bubbled at contact with the heat of his body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch a Dark Wolf] Reference

The “bunch of stuff” was the entire, foot-deep center-console bin, plus other automotive-maintenance items in the rear compartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Experiment in Good Urbanism Goes Bad; Or, Why I Won’t Be Taking DART Anymore] Reference

Through the gap in the back of the hut, Joanna watched him dash through the foot-deep standing water that flooded the ground hereabouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silicon Mage]

Back up and we set off in search of foot-deep surface hoar.    From Wordnik.com.  [- Lou Dawson's Backcountry Skiing Blog] Reference

Bob Adams built the foot-deep, 24 - by 16-inch box out of plywood.    From Wordnik.com.  [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference

There was a foot-deep gully here that Felicita must be helped over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring o' the Year] Reference

Some report dunking it in as much as foot-deep water without incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [MobileWhack.com] Reference

Cleanup plans call for removing a foot-deep layer of soil from the area.    From Wordnik.com.  [statesmanjournal.com - Top Stories] Reference

Its foot-deep interior offered impartial judgment that all the artists respected.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

Several inches of snow is a strong possibility, and another foot-deep snow is possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roanoke Times: Home page] Reference

And at times, Barker has trudged through the woods in foot-deep snow, which is now melted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buffalo News: Home] Reference

Sapper Duffy was alone with his spade and a foot-deep square hole -- and the hissing bullets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Lines] Reference

That winter, icy foot-deep ruts formed on Billings streets and stayed there much of the season.    From Wordnik.com.  [billingsgazette.com] Reference

The quotation marks are quoting winter, like the foot-deep white snow outside my house right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference

They recently pooled resources and called in a contractor to cement-up the foot-deep craters they have to traverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamaica Gleaner Online] Reference

While this latest round of snow was more messy slush than foot-deep drifts, it still had us moping about on a gloomy Monday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicagoist] Reference

The car skidded about 300 feet before ending up overturned in the 4-5 foot-deep canal just north of the Bridge Road overpass.    From Wordnik.com.  [WPTV Top Stories] Reference

After questioning, she eventually led police to some foot-deep water where Jacob was found weighed down with 25 pounds of rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS] Reference

I'm standin 'here in foot-deep snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference

There was a foot-deep gully here that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring o' the Year] Reference

Instead, foot-deep drifts still rot in the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Via Negativa] Reference