touch bottom

Nowhere could I touch bottom or find any hope of solid foothold.

They had been carried into deep water, where the tallest of them could not touch bottom.

Over there, on the other curve of the bend, the longest pole will not touch bottom.

I could not touch bottom with my feet, and so could form no idea of the depth of the stream.

Longshanks reached down as far as he could but not far enough to touch bottom.

Not until he was very close to the shore could he touch bottom.

"But I'm just going to touch bottom," the tall digger expostulated.

He could not touch bottom there, or even at the base of the Causeway.

Perhaps we can touch bottom, and you can wade if you can't swim.

It occurred to me that as I had been able to touch bottom on the other bar, I might do so here.