Ankle Deep

I follow Nana to the yard, slushing after her through ankle-deep snow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The river was still rising, though more slowly, and as soon as they left the high ground they were splashing along ankle-deep in the water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In this period, pitches used to offer an ankle-deep ploughed field one week and a skating rink the next. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Standing along the female factory's stone washtubs with freshly-cropped hair, the women had been forced to sew large yellow C's on their jackets and stood ankle-deep in muddy water for twelve-hour shifts. ❋ Deborah Swiss (2010)

As Solomon's blast of power wanes, he becomes aware of standing ankle-deep in sewage. ❋ Marshall Moore (2011)

I stepped into my first ankle-deep snow drift while climbing into my truck and realized exactly how permeable my three-hundred-dollar hiking boots were. ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

Race organizers cleared ankle-deep snow in some segments prior to the stage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The dry grass, ankle-deep, is pocked brown with rotting apples. ❋ Elizabeth J. Colen (2011)

Ostermeier's Othello 2010 is yet more daringly staged: the first scenes take place in an enormous water tank, the actors sloshing about ankle-deep. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Twenty-year-old Sanani Balami stood in ankle-deep mud, pulled up stalks of rice and lobbed them on to dryer ground. ❋ Anna Tomasulo (2011)

Standing ankle-deep in the brown waters of a paddy field in Niono, south of the Mauritanian border, rice producer Soumaila Kindo declares that private enterprise is the answer. ❋ Unknown (2011)

His possessions were hanging by hooks on the walls, or stuffed into a loft over his bed, which was raised slightly above the ankle-deep water below. ❋ Patrick Barta (2011)

I grabbed his hand, dragged him after me down the ankle-deep stream. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

In a nearby rice field, a labourer stands ankle-deep in mud, talking on a mobile phone. ❋ Unknown (2011)