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Coming only to the ankle or knee.
ankle-deep
shallow
Up to the knees.
knee-high
ankle-deep
1
Patients can be seen sitting in the emergency room,
ankle
-
deep
in water.
2
And honey lay
ankle
-
deep
in the valley and knee-deep on the hills.
3
Her foot slid into the water and sank
ankle
-
deep
into the mud.
4
The snow lay
ankle
-
deep
everywhere and the air was chilly and raw.
5
But together master and apprentice trudged through
ankle
-
deep
water to another gate.
1
In reality, it is
knee
-
deep
in this disappearance and torture, Shabibi said.
2
Brian stood next to them in
knee
-
deep
water and studied the problem.
3
And honey lay ankle-deep in the valley and
knee
-
deep
on the hills.
4
She wades
knee
-
deep
through the sea of lavender bushes in my gardens.
5
We waded
knee
-
deep
through Owl River, in the afternoon of the 15th.
6
It was clear and shallow, and he stood in it barely
knee
-
deep
.
7
Next morning Ashton-Kirk lounged in a comfortable window-seat, almost
knee
-
deep
in newspapers.
8
Roads already bad were washed into gullies; holes generally
knee
-
deep
became impassable.
9
Water was
knee
-
deep
around Paolo, up to his waist, and still rising.
10
He had to be
knee
-
deep
in the water in front of me.
11
I was still on my legs, if they were
knee
-
deep
in mud.
12
We landed beside of a creek
knee
-
deep
in water, among some mangroves.
13
Ten feet wide it was, and
knee
-
deep
in alfalfa and cigar stumps.
14
At some points the water was
knee
-
deep
,
at others it was chin-deep.
15
Mills glanced down, and saw that the creeping sand had him
knee
-
deep
.
16
The villagers never went out more than about
knee
-
deep
,
so we didn't.