The door was already coming up when he struck the ground.
The man was probably dead before he struck the ground.
A rock shot past them from behind and struck the ground ahead.
But it went wide of its mark, striking the ground at his feet.
It struck the ground not far away, and in the wrong direction.
It's a matter of how your foot strikes the ground.
The shot struck the ground, doing no one any harm.
As he tried to make sense of what had happened, another arrow struck the ground at his feet.
The pistol must have struck the ground with some force.
In a marathon, the feet strike the ground more than 20,000 times.