1.   Eventually the ground seemed to stabilize and there was a long silence during which the mist curled slowly upwards.

2.   I stumbled out and the ground seemed to tilt.

3.   Suddenly he gave a frightened start, for he had nearly fallen asleep and the ground below seemed a long distance away.

4.   As one character walks through a parking lot, the ground seems to give way like rubber under his feet.

5.   But those who disagreed were left to ponder their place in an Anglican Communion whose ground seemed to have shifted beneath them.

6.   Even to a first-time visitor, the ground seemed familiar from the writings.

7.   Here too the ground seems to be shifting.

8.   Masur gave the musical ascent his all, but the ground seemed only intermittently firm underfoot.

9.   My friend also noticed the ground seemed spongey underfoot, and there were holes about the size of silver dollars in the potato patch.

10.   Outside Beijing, however, life on the ground often seems so chaotic and thinly monitored that the government has trouble keeping track, much less keeping control.