How To Use Knee-deep In A Sentence
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He has spent much of his career knee-deep in immigration data, figuring out ways to measure the population, crunching the numbers and analyzing their policy implications.
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As I pulled my boat through knee-deep mud, a hard rain began to fall.
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Ungracefully slipping and sliding knee-deep in dark, sticky mud is not food gathering at its most glamorous, yet local people have been collecting marsh samphire between June and September for generations, wherever it is common but especially in East Anglia.
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Janet remembers being told to clear up her bedroom, knee-deep in discarded clothes.
Mrs. Miniver
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In four more long runs-all we could fit in a day-we freerode nothing but knee-deep powder.
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Punters put aside their pints on Monday November 21 to fill and carry sandbags in a valiant effort to keep the outside knee-deep floodwater from entering the Bryansford Road pub.
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The overrated artists and the troops of pack-mentality fans were knee-deep in garbage, dreck, debris, and junk.
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Or some old woman would come with her pails to the spring below, a curious and very old stone well, to which the cattle from the common often rushed down past me in bevies, and stood knee-deep, their mouths making glancing circles in the water as they drank.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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Or just splash safely about in the knee-deep waters by the shore.
The Sun
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DEFENSE SECRETARY Bilderberg, Council on Foreign Relations, former CIA Director, defense secretary under President Bush, co-chaired CFR task force with Zbigniew Brzezinski, knee-deep in the Iran-Contra scandal, named in a 1999 class action lawsuit pertaining to the Mena drug trafficking affair.
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Many spend the day knee-deep in water sifting for diamonds.
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The Clover Paddock of Billabong was famous – a splendid stretch of perfect green, where the cattle moved knee-deep in fragrant blossoming clovers, with pink and white flowers starring the wide expanse.
Mates at Billabong
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Standing knee-deep in sawdust and cardboard boxes a week prior to opening, with not a vol-au-vent in sight, they are convinced that the place will be ready on time.
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A farmyard suggested in her mind a scene of cheerful bustle, with churns and flails and smiling dairymaids, and teams of horses drinking knee-deep in duck-crowded ponds.
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Tens of thousands of people recently hurled truckloads of tomatoes at each other, sending knee-deep rivers of tomato sauce down the streets of the small Spanish town of Bunol during its annual food fight, the Tomatina.
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The huge yard, on the outskirts of Lahore, was knee-deep in mud.
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Yet, as I said to the four people waiting for us to clear one particularly messy portage, as I was standing there knee-deep in the muck: I said: This is what we come for, isn't it?
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All of a sudden I'd be traveling down a country road, and everything clean and quiet, no dust, no dirt; just streams ripplin 'down sweet meadows, and lambs playing, breezes blowing the breath of flowers, and soft sunshine over everything; and lovely cows lazying knee-deep in quiet pools, and young girls bathing in a curve of stream all white and slim and natural – and I'd know I was in Arcady.
The Night-Born
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Ethan was standing in knee-deep water, looking back the way they'd come.
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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
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Like a sword unsheathed in the sunlight, the flames sparkle amidst the grass, which grows knee-deep right to the kopje's very lips.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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Knee-deep contaminated water sloshed down into their boots.
The Sun
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Knee-deep in the water, with drooping head and half-shut eyes, drowsed a red-coated, many-antlered buck.
All Gold Cañon
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You may be having visions of candy corn and pumpkin patches, but the retail industry is already knee-deep in Christmas spending forecasts.
National Retail Federation releases holiday forecast
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Living in knee-deep coastal waters, this small creature buries itself in the sand during the day and comes out to hunt after dark.
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A farmyard suggested in her mind a scene of cheerful bustle, with churns and flails and smiling dairymaids, and teams of horses drinking knee-deep in duck-crowded ponds.
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Cats kill because they are programmed by nature to do so and we would be knee-deep in rats if they were not.
Times, Sunday Times
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They marched until they were knee-deep in a mangrove swamp, then simply turned around.
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Knee-deep in fern we stand while the days of the sun-time go;
The Watchman and Other Poems
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I chose my line of untracked snow and pushed off, testing my telemark turns in the knee-deep powder.
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He chops wood, mows his own field, goes knee-deep into mud to clean sluices in his own pond, prunes back elder trees and picks pears.
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A burst water main caused chaos in a busy York shopping street today, flooding a supermarket and leaving a café knee-deep in water.
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Knee-deep in the water, with drooping head and half-shut eyes, drowsed a red-coated, many-antlered buck.
All Gold Canon
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All in all, the should-be 2 hour journey took us about 8 hours and included 2 taxis, 1 truck bed, 1 10km section on the back of motorcycles, 1 river forded, and one 500m long recently fallen mudslide with knee-deep quicksand-like mud crossed while mud and rocks continued to fall from above.
Life blurs in constant motion « Wanderings
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We walked through the field, knee-deep in mud.
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As the water on the road was knee-deep, engines of several light vehicles conked out and commuters were stranded, blocking the movement of heavy vehicles.
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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
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But this served only to stimulate the already keen energies of the Federal forces, who waded knee-deep through the clear Potomac, and trudged along over the 'sacred soil' with a willingness unchecked by the cold nor'wester that raged on that July morning.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
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Apparently on Bank Holidays, the more secluded parts would be knee-deep in shagging Brummies.
Pasty pirate
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She's still homeless - three months after she was left knee-deep in water by a freak flood at her terraced house.
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Teachers managed to save children's work at St Nicholas Primary School, but the building was knee-deep in water and remained closed last night.
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They had to wade knee-deep through mud and debris to reach the victims.
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One of them gives this part angry, part horrified squeak, and then they stalk off as well as they can in the knee-deep snow.
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Houses in Mastgarh village are still submerged in knee-deep water after the recent rains that lashed out the area for three consecutive days.
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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
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With countless roots and fallen logs hidden under the brown, knee-deep water, each step is a calculated risk.
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Daniel Davila, a 23-year-old timber floorer from Camarillo, Calif.--a Los Angeles suburb knee-deep in the Golden State's housing dust bowl--made the 14-hour move across the Pacific two years ago.
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Eventually he wandered down to the river, where he found Jim standing knee-deep in the water.
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Climbing out of the glen was desperately hard work - knee-deep snow was the norm and occasionally I'd sink into drifts up to my thighs.
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Forty minutes of heavy rains turned Pattaya into a water world on Monday, with floodwaters knee-deep in places and cars breaking down in the waterlogged roads, causing traffic chaos.
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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
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Onlookers said the water was only knee-deep in the part of the lagoon where he fell in.
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In early 2000, I was knee-deep in business books, white papers, technology mags, and Harvard Business Reviews since I worked as an editorial consultant to high-tech and internet folks.
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They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
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But for the buffalo, the year-round, knee-deep mud is simply glorious.
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Vick wore a ski brace on his right ankle and moved as if he were knee-deep in powder.
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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
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Another Campbell Street resident said his garage was knee-deep in water and his family was waiting for the fire brigade to pump water out of the garden, which was entirely submerged.
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During heavy rains the streets and even houses get flooded with knee-deep sullage water, bringing along with it snakes, crabs and insects.
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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.
Adrift in oil, then money
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She was standing in the restaurant when the second wave burst in, leaving her knee-deep in swirling, sandy water - but uninjured.
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To find the snakes, he wades - barefoot - in the knee-deep water of the Venezuelan llanos, the lowland savannah that is flooded each year during rainy season.
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Whether you think Montreal is a stinking cesspit wallowing knee-deep in its own filth or believe that our island's a green gem, next Monday, April 19, is your opportunity to voice your views to the person who has to listen.
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My force was standing knee-deep in mutilated bodies, surrounded by the guttural moans of dying people, looking into the eyes of children bleeding to death with their wounds burning in the sun and being invaded by maggots and flies," he later wrote.
Bystanders to Genocide
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we were standing knee-deep in the water
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But this served only to stimulate the already keen energies of the Federal forces, who waded knee-deep through the clear Potomac, and trudged along over the 'sacred soil' with a willingness unchecked by the cold nor'wester that raged on that July morning.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
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The snow covering the mountain pass is knee-deep and hard going.
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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
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When we left our home the water was only knee-deep.
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We are knee-deep in financial trouble and have no idea how we are going to get out of it.
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The rude enclosure surrounding this antiquated magazine is strewed knee-deep with litter, from the midst of which arises a long rack, resembling a chevaux de frise, which is ordinarily filled with fodder.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
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Finally, with knee-deep water in the cabin 200 miles from Bermuda, he issued a Mayday call.
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Vick wore a ski brace on his right ankle and moved as if he were knee-deep in powder.
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People knee-deep in water in all sizes of residence may be focusing more on the weather than on the prospects for their insurance premiums.
Times, Sunday Times
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The trees had incredibly thick foliage that formed knee-deep, half rotted carpets of fallen leaves.
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We walked through the field, knee-deep in mud.
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The weather has turned foul and the boys are tramping through knee-deep mud.
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‘We were knee-deep in mud and mangroves being bitten by fire ants, leeches and bugs,’ he recalls.
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The wind chill factor on the roof of the alps puts the temperature at about minus 10C but we wade knee-deep in pristine powder, waving our arms and skylarking like the Beatles in Help.
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Daniel Davila, a 23-year-old timber floorer from Camarillo, Calif. — a Los Angeles suburb knee-deep in the Golden State's housing dust bowl — made the 14-hour move across the Pacific two years ago.
More U.S. Job-Hunters Try Australia
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After graduation I spent one more summer knee-deep in humpies and blew everything I earned on a four-month backpacking trip to Europe with Rhonda
Dana Stabenow biography
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Eistaucher took a step towards me and stumbled; abruptly he was knee-deep in water.
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They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
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We waded ashore knee-deep in water and then we were bundled into trucks.
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They stood knee-deep in the snow.
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Nichola Richards was forced to shut the premises on Friday and Saturday, due to the store being knee-deep in water.
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As the water on the road was knee-deep, engines of several light vehicles conked out and commuters were stranded, blocking the movement of heavy vehicles.
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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.
'My Grandson Is Here'
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They may be knee-deep in paisley but always keep the songs on a leash and never rely too much on nostalgic trappings.
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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
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He and his family were awoken at about midnight to find themselves knee-deep in water after the storm drains overflowed.
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Despite the rad profile, nest was as knee-deep in bathos and bourgeois denial as any other shelter mag.
Home Alone
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You were right underneath the castle's garderobe," they say, going on to explain how the neat little hiding place would once have been knee-deep in poo.
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