11.   The drought ends this week when Democrats come to town to renominate President Clinton.

12.   The Sox exist to give us hope that this will be the year the drought finally ends.

13.   Tonight could be the night when the drought ends.

14.   Will the drought ever end?

15.   As farmers, most of the people here hope the present long drought will end soon.

16.   But the optimism gradually waned as the drought did not end.

17.   He never could have guessed his dubious drought would end at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

18.   The Bullets were confident that their playoff drought would end after the NBA voided the contract Howard signed during the offseason with the Miami Heat.

19.   The drought has finally ended.

20.   The drought could end Sunday with the Spanish trying to handle the pressure of being the lead story in national newspapers and the object of extensive TV coverage.