neck-deep

1 of 2

adjective

1
: reaching as high as one's neck
She stood in neck-deep water.
2
: standing in something that reaches to one's neck
usually + in
She was neck-deep in water.
often used figuratively
We were neck-deep in work.

neck-deep

2 of 2

adverb

: in something that reaches to one's neck
She stood neck-deep in the water.

Examples of neck-deep in a Sentence

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The soil beneath her hooves began to collapse as a sinkhole formed, trapping the 20-year-old horse neck-deep in mud, the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a Feb. 21 news release. Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024 Firefighters were able to successfully pull a horse out from neck-deep soil after a sinkhole suddenly swallowed the animal Wednesday afternoon. Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024 Video broadcast on local television shows villagers wading neck-deep through the muddy water with their cattle, and homes, shops and cars submerged in the floods. Manveena Suri, CNN, 23 June 2023 While its portrait of a nation neck-deep in fear, medication, and runaway overprotectiveness strikes home, Beau Is Afraid isn’t building up to some screed against the pharmaceutical industry or cynical internet headlines; its targets are more cosmic and existential. Vulture, 13 June 2023 Today, the media industry is neck-deep in discussions about how to measure audiences, and Collier’s worlds from nearly two decades ago seem to be on many executives’ lips. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 May 2023

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“Neck-deep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neck-deep. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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