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词汇 example_english_knee-deep
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Examples of knee-deep


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They were sitting knee-deep in water, in the dark, for nearly three days before they were dug out.
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But in the last few years we have been knee-deep in leisure centres, and the rate of juvenile crime has been higher than ever.
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It is the number of broiler chickens bred in this country in inhumane conditions—in windowless sheds, knee-deep in droppings—whose limbs never reach maturity because of their accelerated growth.
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She would find herself in an antediluvian carriage, knee-deep in filth, and would probably conclude that the journey would be quicker on the back of a lame tortoise.
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Photographs taken shortly after evacuation show that the plane came to rest in knee-deep water.
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The track was close to the beach, and was knee-deep in sand in places.
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The geological forces of the desert mean that tourists now walk through houses knee-deep in sand.
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It is also good for parents of young children because the water doesn't get much deeper than knee-deep along the shore.
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Once on land or immobilised in knee-deep water, a cut is made across its top near the blowhole to partially sever its head.
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Mudslides and overflowing rivers flooded several towns with knee-deep waters.
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They will start on opposite sides of the course, racing through knee-deep water to catch the other tribe.
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They would start on opposite sides of the course, racing through knee-deep water to catch the other tribe.
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Their legs are covered in a water repelling substance allowing them to run quite fast in knee-deep water.
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The ground was swampy, and the trenches quickly became filled knee-deep in water.
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They use the knee-deep water as protection from predators.
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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.
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The river is full during the monsoon season but has only knee-deep water in summer.
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They possessed an inexhaustible supply of grass, the hills around being covered knee-deep with a luxuriant crop of pure rye.
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Their legs are covered in a water-repellant substance which allows them to run quite fast in knee-deep water.
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Several passengers reported assisting others out of the cabin and into the knee-deep water.
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The boots were a solution to a problem of often flooded gold mines in which men otherwise stood in knee-deep water toiling at their work stations.
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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.
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They worked to keep the curious from getting in the way of the rescuers while others entered into the knee-deep sticky mess to pull out the survivors.
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The tornado destroyed the water tower and produced numerous fires in its wake, though overnight rains which left knee-deep water in some streets contained the flames.
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