| If the river is low, which is most of the time, you can walk across in ankle-deep water before turning upstream. |
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| As soon as we got downstairs, we were walking in ankle-deep water and there seemed to be an urgency to just get us out of the building. |
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| A stray cat scampered across the alley, not sparing a glance at the girl who was wading through an ankle-deep swamp of old newspaper. |
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| Tape recorder in hand, the reporter attempted to cross the field in ankle-deep mud. |
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| They were all treading through ankle-deep snow in the parking-lot, holding their jackets up to their necks against the piercing gale. |
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| He climbed from the tow-truck landing in an ankle-deep puddle, and ran towards Gregg, shouting for him to get out of the way. |
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| The first three all tried for the same rock and ended up ankle-deep in water. |
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| The kids are ankle-deep in water when it rains because of the drainage around their cafeteria. |
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| The whole site was ankle-deep in sawdust and all around there were trees which had been sawn into longitudinal slices with small wedges between each slice. |
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| Those who escaped when their simple mud-brick homes collapsed sat among the debris, ankle-deep in mud and wrapped in blankets handed out by soldiers and volunteers. |
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| Fess waded through the ankle-deep coating of snow and slush around the 18-wheeler. |
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| It was too easy, even for Julia who, fearing she wouldn't get a bite, found herself ankle-deep in whoppers. |
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| The legs of his pants end above the tops of his shoes, a fashion preference dictated by the hours he spends ankle-deep in wet grass. |
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| They stepped into the tunnels of the sewers, in the ankle-deep, putrid water. |
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| On the edges of the cities families huddle together in corrugated iron shacks, and the streets are ankle-deep in water during the rainy season. |
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| He ran as fast as he could, but it wasn't easy in the ankle-deep snow. |
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| Dew soaked her shoes as she made her way through the ankle-deep grass. |
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| Even if the sun is shining, chances are the puddles are ankle-deep. |
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| In north-western Gonaives, Haiti's third largest city of about a quarter million people, residents waded through ankle-deep mud outside the mayor's office. |
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| However, just a few hundred meters from the center, parts of streets were covered by ankle-deep, stinking mud. |
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| None of the roads were paved, and when it rained some of them would turn to ankle-deep mud. |
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| During the day shift, he sloshed around ankle-deep in dye, in a grubby old factory in America's Silk City, Paterson, New Jersey. |
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| Reportage potentially involves travelling distances to follow a story, and putting up with small privations like ankle-deep mud or freezing gales. |
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| He thought he might fall forever, until he hit the ground hard, ankle-deep water sloshing at his feet. |
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| They were all treading through ankle-deep snow in the lot, holding their jackets up to their necks against the piercing gale. |
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| Accompanying photos show grim-faced people clearing their cars in ankle-deep snow. |
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| Outside, the wind screamed and ankle-deep water lapped at the sides of the hotel. |
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| Nostalgia a thing of the past Anyone expecting to see Röthlisberger's cabinetmakers standing ankle-deep in wood shavings will be disappointed. |
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| The library was ankle-deep in abandoned schoolbooks. |
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| Streets outside ankle-deep in confetti, torn telephone books. |
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| She went to the Common to walk Max but soon found herself ankle-deep in mud. |
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| The smell of gas was very strong and I was shocked and concerned that some of the pirates were preparing to light cigarettes while ankle-deep in gas. |
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| In the capital, Cayenne, it's bucketing down, pouring off the roofs in cascades and turning lawns into ankle-deep swamps. |
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| Dressed in rags, a man and woman stand ankle-deep in a swamp. |
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