touch bottom
Example Sentences
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You have to touch bottom before you can kind of start to come back up again.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2022
“There you go,” he said, when I was able to touch bottom again.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
We swim into it wearing our headlamps and, in most places, the water is too deep to touch bottom.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2016
Anglers and rafters can float navigable waters in a boat, but they can’t touch bottom — no hopping out to wade, no dropping anchor to heed nature’s call.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2012
He waded in slowly and started swimming only when he couldn’t touch bottom anymore.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
