Part of High Street was cut off by waist-deep water and roads in and out of the town were closed.

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With a dolphin encounter, you will get an up-close and personal meeting with your new bottlenose bud via a waist-deep submerged platform.

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Pfizer was waist-deep in an ambitious test of Trovan, an antibiotic showing promise against a wide variety of infections, from bronchitis to pneumonia.

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Participants on a 10-to-12 mile Tough Mudder course wade through waist-deep mud, crawl under barbed wire, submerge themselves in ice water and jump through fire.

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Other portions of the track are marked with chest-high arrows so walkers know which way to go if waist-deep floodwaters suddenly appear, as they often do.

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Here mountains give way to an expanse of deserted white sand that runs hundreds of metres from shore at low tide, with the warm water waist-deep for hundred of metres more.

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Soon he was waist-deep in every detail of the company.

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Others used ropes to wade through waist-deep muddy waters.

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The saga began Aug. 30, when The Associated Press published a photograph of the soaked, bearded man being helped by two rescuers in Slidell after he nearly drowned, swept away in waist-deep water.

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On Tuesday, after the storm had passed, I gave my family the slip and walked a mile south through Red Hook, first past houses and businesses that were still bilge-ing out waist-deep water on Van Brunt Street, than over to Lorraine Street, where I heard the water had been high that morning, and the Red Hook Houses, a housing project.

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