We were standing knee-deep in the water. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And the cattle of the farmer as they stand knee-deep. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The farmer, knee-deep in the brook, looked up, startled. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
I'm actually kind of knee-deep in organic chemistry right now. From Wordnik.com. [Building More Classrooms, One Web Browser At A Time] Reference
It is in knee-deep already; energy is a highly regulated industry. From Wordnik.com. [Power Failures] Reference
Still preferable to being knee-deep in Deepwater Horizon oil, right?. From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
The dimpling pool might have been knee-deep, and was as cold as ice. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
It was like wading through knee-deep mud -- sticky, sluggish, resisting. From Wordnik.com. [Second Sight] Reference
The rain that fell almost daily, kept the mud knee-deep and the roads slushy. From Wordnik.com. [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference
Lately, the tabloid has been knee-deep in the private lives of our politicians. From Wordnik.com. [The Ur-Text of a Tabloid Age] Reference
When the elephant trudged knee-deep in the mud, the fly said, "How heavy we are!". From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Old Attic] Reference
The woods cast their leaves early, and the drifts lay rotting knee-deep in places. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Ears told you he was tripping over fallen timber or sloshing in knee-deep bog hole. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Dr. Braswell once stood knee-deep in a North Carolina pond, tallying frogs at midnight. From Wordnik.com. [Is That the Croak of the Pickerel? Frog Census Is a Tad Uncertain] Reference
We plunged knee-deep, waist-deep through the drifts, for our lives, -- for mine, anyhow. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
Roads already bad were washed into gullies; holes generally knee-deep became impassable. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
In the Swat Valley, residents were forced to trudge through knee-deep water in some streets. From Wordnik.com. [Floods Kill At Least 267 In Pakistan] Reference
We moved to Decherd and encamped on a ridge, but are now knee-deep in mud and surrounded by water. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
The greatest obstacles were the peat bogs, into which I often sank knee-deep, and had to crawl out. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
The field where the latter had their lines was nothing but a mass of mud, in most places knee-deep. From Wordnik.com. [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference
The Yankees wouldn't let up even if they crowded us clear back until we're knee-deep in the Rio Grande. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Predictably, few public institutions populate the list of schools that graduate students knee-deep in debt. From Wordnik.com. [Justin Snider: Colleges That Graduate Students Deep in Debt] Reference
It's the cusp of an age of unparalleled lawlessness and vice, and Nucky is three knee-deep steps ahead of it. From Wordnik.com. [Married to the Mob] Reference
We deployed into a field near a beautiful creek, -- Thompson's, -- where the water was knee-deep and very clear. From Wordnik.com. [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference
Once above the foothills and into the range proper, the going became more level, but the snow remained knee-deep. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Then she lifted her bodily in her arms, swung her on her back and ran splashing knee-deep in water to solid ground. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Summer on US TV is traditionally the season of repeats and reality but this year the schedules are knee-deep in new drama. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV] Reference
All over the town manufactories and public buildings of colossal size stand, like megatheria, knee-deep in a jungle of houses. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
In the thick mud of one of the marshy swamps of South Africa a herd of buffaloes, some sixteen in number, stood almost knee-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
The smith who worked at the bellows often stood knee-deep in water, which sometimes covered the rock to the depth of twelve feet. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Earlier Wednesday, a 50-year-old man was rescued who had been trapped in knee-deep mud on the second floor of a hotel, Xinhua said. From Wordnik.com. [Colombia, Venezuela restore diplomatic ties] Reference
Then, hitching up my wading stockings, I went in to less than knee-deep and angled for trout for a quarter of an hour to no purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
There had been much rain, and the roads were almost impassable from mud, knee-deep in places, and from wash-outs on the mountain sides. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Clinton, Dole thundered, was weak and waffling, a man who's "talked conservatively while walking knee-deep in the swamps of liberalism.". From Wordnik.com. [The Fight Inside The Tent] Reference
The sand was knee-deep, and the first thing that happened was the stoppage of our procession by the tumbling down of the several horses. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Especially when you're - when you're knee-deep working on a song, you become very protective of it and it's really tough to take chances. From Wordnik.com. [The Raconteurs: New Music for Old Friends] Reference
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