take soundings

Slightly got a dozen for looking perplexed when told to take soundings.

Boris says he will take soundings as his experiment proceeds.

He took soundings, then anchored and put a boat over.

What a very bad notion that was of his, I thought to myself, to take soundings just here!

No effort was made to take soundings of water depth.

At last they reached a little bay, and began to take soundings.

He went straight to the bar and took soundings with his meter.

Before she ceased operations for the day, men put out in boats to take soundings.

The men who took soundings should've found that bank.

They took soundings very often but it was only several days later that the water became shallower.