knee-deep

• “Instead, he found himself knee-deep in letters from students at Ohio State who wanted to know if I had any other secrets to share.”

  The Quiet Coup

• “I am not from here," said the 70-year-old rice farmer, as his bloodshot eyes tried to measure whether his boxy white truck could make it through the knee-deep water.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'My Grandson Is Here'

• “A Coast Guardsman, wanting to memorialize his role in fighting the spill, asked for a tattoo of SpongeBob SquarePants, the cartoon character, standing knee-deep in oil.”

  The Washington Post: Six months after the spill, BP's money is changing the gulf as much as its oil

• “Harry's passion is theatre/arts therapy and he's knee-deep in starting up his own practice.”

  Day in the Life of an Idiot

• “The red-coated, many-antlered buck acknowledged the lordship of the spirit of the place and dozed knee-deep in the cool, shaded pool.”

  All Gold Canon

• “Jeering and cursing us, the guards ran in the fire hose and played the fierce streams on us, dungeon by dungeon, hour after hour, until our bruised flesh was battered all anew by the violence with which the water smote us, until we stood knee-deep in the water which we had raved for and for which now we raved to cease.”

  Chapter 4

• “And finally, at the end of an hour, with aching back, sweat-soaked shirt, and slaughtered hands, you are through and swinging along on the placid, beneficent tide between narrow banks where the cattle stand knee-deep and gaze wonderingly at you.”

  SMALL-BOAT SAILING

• “Dolly looks as though she'd forgotten all about yesterday," Chris said, as they sat their horses knee-deep in the rushing water.”

  Jack London's Short Story: Planchette

• “Standing knee-deep in the icy water, the Minook men, with Montana Kid and the policeman, gripped hands and raised their voices in the terrible, "Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

  AT THE RAINBOW'S END

• “Huge squad rooms, knee-deep in the litter of things the toil of men has made — hats, caps, shirts, modern leather shoes and rude sandals of the sort worn on the north Mediterranean half a thousand years before the days of Julius”

  Mexico's Army and Ours

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