"We cut our hands and broke our fingernails and got thoroughly immersed in the muck and yuck."

Little Kenny Valentine has been as thoroughly immersed in the part of good ol' wire-haired, zigzag-headed Sparky as any actor in history.

It is much less frequent that people come to a site and become so thoroughly immersed.

We are thoroughly immersed in the school-improvement concept, as well as numerous other examples of innovative techniques and methods.

But a writer who is thoroughly immersed in the rural milieu of the Dakotas, where nearly everyone is related, faces a particularly difficult form of self-censorship.

"I would say the college is thoroughly immersed in the community, but the kind of unrestricted giving that other places enjoy the college has not ever been able to have," he said.

I became so thoroughly immersed in the narrative that for a period of several weeks toward the end of the final draft a kind of benign insanity settled upon me.

You want a person with a great deal of experience, hands-on, problem- solving experience, thoroughly immersed in the issues as Bob has been in his 27 years in Congress.

Seven men thoroughly immersed in the Holy Spirit is better than seventy men with luke warm enthusiasm.

"If you were truly devoted to analysis you had to study it full time, to be thoroughly immersed in it," he said.