How to Use knee-deep in a Sentence

knee-deep

adjective
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  • Stick to knee-deep waves or kick out (swim fins come in clutch here) to grab the big swells.
    — Brittany Loggins, Women's Health, 23 June 2023
  • Portions of the wreck were in water that was just knee-deep, the museum said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The storm dropped record rainfall across the region, downed power lines and trees, and left some places knee-deep in mud.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Baths will be dunks that require wading through sticky, knee-deep mud.
    — Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • At that time, Demarco’s front yard was knee-deep in water.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
  • With palm trees as a backdrop, the star got knee-deep in the ocean with her swimsuit and Baywatch t-shirt on ... only the suit wasn't fully worn.
    — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In the last seconds of his life, the 53-year-old actor Vic Morrow was struggling through knee-deep water with a child in each arm.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • The first lifeguards on the scene found seven bodies, pulling victims from knee-deep water and from the waterline up the beach to dry sand.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Images show roads and streets in Manila flooded by rains brought by the storm, as people wade through knee-deep water.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 24 July 2024
  • On most summer days, the biggest danger comes from stingrays that bury themselves just beneath the sand in knee-deep water near shore.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • By the following year, Venezuela was knee-deep in a banking crisis and the Torre de David was never completed.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Some are dropped off on a Mexican highway by smugglers for a roughly two-hour walk through a knee-deep river and flat desert shrub and rocks.
    — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Trudging through knee-deep snow to spot seals or enduring biting winds while hoping to see a humpback?
    — Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2024
  • Indulging in their family pastime, the Macleans find reprieve from their troubles and tragedies while knee-deep in the Blackfoot River.
    — Derek Scancarelli, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2023
  • One or two inches of snow isn’t enough, but knee-deep snow will properly protect the seedlings during the most precarious time in a tree’s life.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Families waded through knee-deep soft muck to carry their canoes into the sea.
    — Kayla J. Dunn, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Swift water rescue crews helped the group walk out of knee-deep water in the riverbed near Morena Boulevard and Friars Road, officials said.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Winter’s knee-deep snow in the forest near Knyazhevo village has retreated and with it the early nightfall.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
  • In the wet season, when monsoons swell rivers and turn the red dirt into knee-deep mud, Ramingining’s 900 or so inhabitants are often cut off for weeks at a time.
    — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • While the rest of the baseball industry is knee-deep in analytics, the Rockies remain stuck in a previous era.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • All of its passengers disembarked except for an older woman and young boy who stayed on board, not wanting to wait in knee-deep snow.
    — Yaqoob Akbary Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
  • This may be reassuring news for stay-at-home parents knee-deep in diapers and temper tantrums.
    — Apryl Duncan, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • Residents cleaned up Tuesday using heavy construction equipment and snow shovels to clear ice that had piled up knee-deep.
    — CBS News, 21 May 2024
  • The bottom line is clear: for a person with hearing loss who’s knee-deep in the Apple ecosystem, soon there will be no better earbuds (or hearing aids) on the market to buy than AirPods Pro.
    — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Lifeguards were encouraging people in South Padre Island, a beach town of around 2,000 on the barrier island of the same name, to stay out of the water or at least to go no further than knee-deep, Pigg said.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 5 July 2024
  • The predators can hold their breath underwater for more than an hour and can completely conceal themselves in ambush mode in knee-deep water.
    — Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 31 May 2023
  • The elephants eventually ambled away into the bush and then the guides pushed us, gondola-style, into knee-deep, three-foot-wide channels lined by Papyrus reeds.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Miraculously, the dog survived the harrowing ordeal, but not before the Leach’s tracked the lion through knee-deep snow and fired multiple warning shots at the large predator.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Season 2 ended with an awkward yet heart-warming declaration of love, with Jessie and Tom sharing a kiss while standing in knee-deep pond water.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Aug. 2023
  • There’s also a .4-mile boardwalk behind the Visitor Center for a stroll through a peaceful cypress swamp filled with majestic trees knee-deep in water.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023

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