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The 27-year-old father sat about 10 yards away from the thigh-deep grave of his little girl.
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Hiked to the top of a Himalayan peak in thigh-deep snow.
Eliezer Sobel: What's on Your Bucket List? Eliezer Sobel 2010
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At times, government fighters were forced to try to advance through thigh-deep water and sewage flooding large parts of the streets of District 2, the western neighbourhood and last location where Gaddafi forces are still holding out.
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That day we'd hiked for three hours up the undeveloped peaks around the mountain called Tokachidake, through thigh-deep powder, with our skis and snowboards on our backs.
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Unfortunately, the most common response to sinking thigh-deep into what previously appeared to be solid ground is to freak out like Captain Kirk at an intergalactic bikini contest.
Boing Boing 2009
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In places it has been flooded thigh-deep with a rank mixture of water and sewage that has settled in the dips below a low, narrow ridge that runs just above the coastal road.
Gaddafi loyalists hold out in last desperate resistance at Sirte, as families flee 2011
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The 27-year-old father sat about 10 yards away from the thigh-deep grave of his little girl.
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Trudging over the crust with a cruel wind slicing at my cheeks, I tried to adopt the mindset of a polar explorer and zone out, but occasionally my foot would disappear into thigh-deep powder.
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In one such fight, the Marines waded across a thigh-deep irrigation canal and immediately came under fire from both sides of the waterway, including a mud-walled compound about 300 yards away on the near side.
U.S. and Afghan Troops Expand Control in Marjah Michael M. Phillips 2010
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In one such fight, the Marines waded across a thigh-deep irrigation canal and immediately came under fire from both sides of the waterway, including a mud-walled compound about 300 yards away on the near side.
U.S. and Afghan Troops Expand Control in Marjah Michael M. Phillips 2010
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