Few are more than a foot deep or much over 5 feet long.
The earth on the rock floor in this recess is nowhere more than a foot deep.
It was reported as suitable for a dwelling, but at the entrance the roof is not more than 4 feet high, and a stream a foot deep reaches to the wall on either side.
How often do we hear it said, "My meadow never freezes more than a foot deep; there will never be any trouble from frost in that place, if the tiles are no more than two feet deep.
A small sepulcher, 1-1/2 feet square by 1 foot deep, contained the remains of an infant, also a few small shell beads.
A bed of charred or rather burnt bones, occupying a space 3 feet long, 2 feet wide, and about 1 foot deep.
A stone sepulcher, 1-1/2 feet square and 1 foot deep, stone slabs on the four sides and top; the bottom consisted simply of earth hardened by fire.
We were much puzzled at first with the appearance of several parallel trenches, a foot deep, running for a great distance amongst the fragments, but on examination they were ascertained to originate in fissures of the subjacent strata.
In this neighbourhood there are a number of straight furrows a foot deep, as if a plough had been drawn through the loose fragments.
After traveling one mile, we crossed a very crooked, muddy creek, about twelve feet wide and over a foot deep.
The water in the hole smells strong of sulphur or alkali and is not pleasant tasting, but under the water which is over a foot deep there is as clear ice as I ever saw and good tasting.
After traveling five and three quarters miles crossed a creek about six feet wide and a foot deep.
In cement ponds it is best to plant the roots of water-lilies in shallow boxes of earth (1 foot deep and 3 or 4 feet square), or to hold the earth in mason-work compartments.
A layer of rough stones a foot deep is sometimes used in the bottom of ordinary beds for drainage, and with good results, when other methods are not convenient, and when there is fear that the bed may become too wet.
This should be 5 inches to a foot deep, according to the latitude or locality.
As the plants stand so thick, the soil should be well enriched, and spaded at least a foot deep.
These must be chopp’d on each side opposite, and laid into trenches about half a foot deep, covered about two or three fingers deep with good mould.
The water was about a foot deep, and the bottom clean white marl, with little patches of vegetation.
Arriving there, we found the tide almost flood, with the water perfectly smooth and very clear and about a foot deep up at the mangrove roots.
It seemed absolutely silly to fish in water a foot deep.
One of the Puna storms was now gathering, thunder and lightning accompanied a heavy fall of snow, which very soon lay a foot deep on the ground.
The young shoots are stuck into the sand almost half a foot deep, then tied up and left to themselves.
It was soon a foot deep, and we had to keep carefully in the track of the caravan, lest we should roll over into the snowy abyss.
The flanks on both sides consist of loose, extremely fine material, wet and crossed by clefts a foot deep.
The snow now lay a foot deep, and the caravan marked out a coal-black winding line through the white expanse.
Miss Liverage told me the hole which Wallbridge dug was not more than a foot deep; and Harvey Barth's diary contained the same statement," said the boatman to himself.
The brig had evidently shifted her cargo in the hold, for she had heeled over until the water was a foot deep in the lee scuppers.
As he spoke he kneeled down on the beach, and scooped out of the sand and gravel a hole about a foot deep, into which he dropped the bag of gold.
When the river narrows down to two hundred feet in width, and is about a foot deep, the fish are so crowded together that the water fairly boils with them.
The snow was about a foot deep, and Bill was faring badly.
My bed that night was a pile of skins, a foot deep, in a corner of the tent.
Fragments of charred human bones, and some that seemed not to be charred, of six or seven individuals were found from about 1 foot deep down to 4 feet deep.
A pendant made of brass with thong and bead made of copper found among the rocks over this grave about 1 foot deep (Fig.
A copper ornament found among the rocks over this grave about 1 foot deep.
The snow was quite a foot deep, with a crust on top which we broke at almost every step, and which made it hard walking.
We were now in the water a foot deep most of the time, the dogs picking their way along over the narrowest water lanes, Ituk and Koki shouting to them to gee and haw, and with Eskimo calls and whip-snapping, urging them on continually.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foot deep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
