1.  She heard a faint hiss as the metal struck the water.

2.  She heard the faint hiss as the metal struck the water.

3.  A stream of urine struck the water leaving a phosphorescent trail on the surface.

4.  Somewhere, a little boy may now picture himself upside down in the pool, toes curled, legs striking the water like the hammers of a Steinway.

5.  The closest thing to a bite that night was an occasional splash of a breaching diamondback, a sound something akin to a cannonball striking the water.

6.  They struck water on their first try and were told to drill a second well.

7.  A police helicopter struck water shooting up from a powerful fountain on the Golden Horn waterway Friday and crashed onto an empty building nearby, killing two officers.

8.  Both struck water and took double-bogeys, knocking them off leaderboard.

9.  Chinese geologists have struck water in the inhospitable but oil-rich Taklimakan desert, Xinhua said Friday.

10.  The oasis is drying up and Egyptian farmers have to drill deeper and deeper to strike water.