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knee-deep ADJ

1. knee-deep:

knee-deep

齐膝深的 qíxī shēn de

knee-deep

没膝的 mòxīde

2. knee-deep (in):

knee-deep

深陷在…中的 shēnxiàn zài…zhōng de

be knee-deep in work

Usage examples with knee-deep

be knee-deep in work

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English

The geological forces of the desert mean that tourists now walk through houses knee-deep in sand. en.wikipedia.org

And finally, no one wants in 30 to 40 years to be knee-deep in coal. www.ghanaweb.com

Evacuees, some wearing life-vests, waited for rescue on the partly submerged slides knee-deep in frigid river water. en.wikipedia.org

They use the knee-deep water as protection from predators. en.wikipedia.org

A trench, knee-deep in certain stretches and waist-deep in others defined the base's perimeter and connected the base's twenty-two bunkers. en.wikipedia.org

They possessed an inexhaustible supply of grass, the hills around being covered knee-deep with a luxuriant crop of pure rye. en.wikipedia.org

Mudslides and overflowing rivers flooded several towns with knee-deep waters. en.wikipedia.org

And doing an update on the fly doesn't necessarily mean diving knee-deep in some confusing code. associationsnow.com

Once on land or immobilised in knee-deep water, a cut is made across its top near the blowhole to partially sever its head. en.wikipedia.org

In the story, he had been punished after death by being condemned to stand knee-deep in water with perfect fruit growing above his head, both of which eternally "tantalized" him. en.wikipedia.org

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