Nowhere could I touch bottom or find any hope of solid foothold.

Similarly, declining states will ultimately touch bottom and then begin to ascend.

Presently Dick felt his feet touch bottom, but only for an instant.

You couldn't touch bottom with a church steeple right now, it's safe enough.

A few minutes later Snap announced that he could touch bottom.

We have to go forward expecting that the market should touch bottom, Marchionne said.

The water was not very deep here and they were able to touch bottom.

We broke through to the surface and, blessedly, I was able to touch bottom.

The waters were shallow; you could actually touch bottom.

It was a long point, and I knew I could touch bottom with my pole.

The island might touch bottom when it had only gone down, say, a hundred feet.

I've got to stay where I can touch bottom.

They had been carried into deep water, where the tallest of them could not touch bottom.

But economists believe they may have to drop a further 20 percent before they have touch bottom.

They were evidently trying to touch bottom with their feet, but the water was over their heads.

Now, now, his feet surely touch bottom.