If all the road was ankle-deep in miry, sticky mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

With every step, the ankle-deep mud sucked at their feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [calling on dragons]

They were on the wings, standing there, ankle-deep in water.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2009] Reference

Another morning came, and there they sat, ankle-deep in cards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference

The sand was more than ankle-deep and the going heavy in the extreme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference

It caused ankle-deep water to fill the terminal C baggage claim area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2009] Reference

The snow had long since been trampled to half-frozen ankle-deep mush.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Daggers]

The sidewalk was badly kept, and the rain made it ankle-deep with mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference

Ferguson jumped down the hatch steps and into ankle-deep foam and oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Code Three] Reference

As well as anyone could scurry, when every other step sank ankle-deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Daggers]

“But ... our boat!” the woman cried, ankle-deep in the foaming water.    From Wordnik.com.  [With a Single Spell]

He opened the door and vaulted out into snow that was already ankle-deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snow Angels]

She is standing ankle-deep a river waving a motionless hand at the camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference

Before the front door was a rough stone causeway, already ankle-deep in filth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

"What you givin 'us, anyway?" said Gettysburg, remaining ankle-deep in the mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

Suffrage in St. James's Hall last night, floor nearly ankle-deep in loose hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892] Reference

"Dying Young" promises a wallow and gives us an ankle-deep wade in tepid waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pretty Woman Does A Weepie] Reference

It was merely a dirty hut approached by a lane ankle-deep in mud and cow-manure.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

The man looked as if he wished he could sink out of sight in the ankle-deep water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference

Jill stood ankle-deep in flowers looking down at her mount, the prize of the desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Love] Reference

Snow was thick on his hood and shoulders; it was already ankle-deep about his boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

Paul and the two girls stood ankle-deep in the water that completely covered the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real] Reference

Airways here at Reagan National Airport and it really filled the area in ankle-deep water.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2009] Reference

Our feet slipped ankle-deep in water, the cleft sides stood three-men-high above our heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bull From The Sea]

The dust was ankle-deep there, choking thick when stirred by feet and hoof to a powdery cloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference

Water lay ankle-deep in the outer ward, draining off far too slowly to keep pace with the flood.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Excellent Mystery]

The explorers walked ankle-deep in dust through a maze of rooms until they came to a big central hall of statues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference

ROBERTS: Old buildings are fine as long as they're in good condition and not backed up in ankle-deep in sewage, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2008] Reference

The stalactites crashed to the cave's floor until it was carpeted in ankle-deep chips of stone, and he waded through them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

By the afternoon, Tom Blacker was ensconced in a fair-sized office with vaguely oriental furnishings and an ankle-deep rug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Out of Our Skies!] Reference

There was no regular footway, but a mere beaten track in front of the cabins, and this, on wet days, was ankle-deep in mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

Count Victor followed, stepping gingerly, for the snow was ankle-deep upon the lawn, and his red-heeled dancing-shoes were thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

The street was ankle-deep with mud, only the narrow crossing being passable, and I hurried to get over before the cavalry came up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference

Visitors simply slip off their shoes and socks and immerse their weary feet in ankle-deep pools filled with hot water and minerals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Life] Reference

The trenches filled with water and the men had first to wade through deep sludge and then over rain-sodden ground ankle-deep in mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference

They brushed through the ankle-deep grass, pausing here and there to admire a clump of trees, a striking sky line, or a pretty slope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

Three days later, early in the cold morning, a little girl stood ankle-deep in the new-fallen snow in front of the grand house where Lily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference