How To Use Drying up In A Sentence
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The sewage drains are open and the only sources of water are the borewells that are drying up.
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my poison ivy is drying up
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Mountain peaks are brown instead of white, lakes are drying up and hydroelectric dams sit idle.
Times, Sunday Times
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* Villaraigosa, along with the city council, bankrupted Los Angeles, in spite of dire warnings over the last 18 months that the City coffers were drying up, and he allowed and encouraged them to continue their spending sprees all the same.
Obama's First But Not Unforgivable Bone-headed Move
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By now, the sun is up and angrily drying up your sweat, matting your hair and hardening your uniform.
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Newspapers are elephants in a desert of their own making, desperately wandering from watering hole to watering hole, but the revenue flowing from each tributary of their 18th century monopoly on the sale of copies is drying up.
Newspapers are doomed
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But on that day, as Allen began asking for roll call votes and other time-consuming formalities, the seconds began drying up.
The Good Fight
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A fossil poacher has invaded the reservation, and because he's stolen certain bones and threatened to kill if he isn't shown more, the world is out of kilter and creeks are drying up.
Stephanie Woodard: Wham! Pow! The CDC Goes to Comic-Con
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She looked up and over at me in surprise, tears slowly drying up.
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A chill wind of financial reality is blowing through football now that the riches provided by television companies are drying up.
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This game works only with masterpieces, and their supply is drying up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Donations are drying up and the sector is expected to be badly hit by public spending cuts.
Times, Sunday Times
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At some of the schools where athletics is most heavily subsidized, faculty salaries have dipped, state-funded financial aid is drying up and students are bracing for tuition and fee increases.
Amid funding crisis, college athletics soak up subsidies, fees
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It comes amid concern that company payouts are drying up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The worst day was the end of the month, a time when his funds were close to drying up.
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Maybe not that far, but keeping them from drying up as a result of nearby destination resorts pumping water out of their aquifers might be a nice start.
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He got up and stood beside Julie, drying up the dishes while she washed.
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The volume of inward investment was drying up and money would have been switched to home-grown firms or else left undistributed.
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Work is continuing on the Clodiagh river to improve the aquatic environment by reducing pollution and preventing the river bed from drying up in summer.
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Taking too much water for household use is drying up the river.
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Mountain peaks are brown instead of white, lakes are drying up and hydroelectric dams sit idle.
Times, Sunday Times
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While he is putting the drying up away, I am sitting on the sofa in the living room, sorting through papers.
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When average price rises of 28 percent are taken into account, it indicates that near-market supplies are drying up and that consumers may be holding on to their gold in the expectation of higher prices.
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In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, some manufacturers and analysts have worried about the short-term drying up of orders from Japan as it wrestles with failed communications networks and the scope of the catastrophe.
West Coast Ports: No Operational Impact Yet from Japan Quake
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His attempts to put things right have been undermined by a cash flow that was always spasmodic and is now drying up.
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Out in the seats I imagine we're all feeling the same fear - that our jobs are drying up, that they can be done for a fraction of our wages by someone more desperate somewhere else, that our hard-won skills are passé.
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Maybe though just not with drying up a whole glass of soda from the carpet.
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When my body can dehydrate and lose its water just like the land drying up.
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That cycle of events takes around four days, but new crops of vesicles come up in waves in the first three or four days, so you can have some vesicles growing bigger while earlier ones are drying up and crusting over.
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This game works only with masterpieces, and their supply is drying up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mountain peaks are brown instead of white, lakes are drying up and hydroelectric dams sit idle.
Times, Sunday Times
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People, you must "skep" when it rains, as the clouds are drying up in this, our beloved country!
IOL: News
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Part of it was due to the drying up of local film production, muscled out of business by the inundation of Hollywood movies.
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Credit markets are drying up, as investors flee risk, making it harder and more expensive for many firms to borrow.
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Credit markets are drying up, as investors flee risk, making it harder and more expensive for many firms to borrow.
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The drying up of food, fodder and feed will eventually affect milk production.
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The US corporate owners won't be needed, and their firms will gradually find their sales drying up, their market share vanishing, and their stock tanking.
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The sun is extremely strong here, so we are thinking that a thin veiling of net might be advisable in the midday sun, to keep the blossoms and fruit from drying up, the skins thickening, blossom-end rot, etc.
Backyard gardens
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We are seeing the liquidation of the beef herds because grazing land is drying up and hay and feed has become extremely expensive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes I can feel the pool emptying, drying up under a harsh sun.
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Traditional sources of pupils are drying up: for example, the children of people in the armed forces.
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Not only is demand drying up but companies are taking seriously the risk that one or more countries might leave the euro.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even the gene pools in the South are drying up.
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Not only is demand drying up but companies are taking seriously the risk that one or more countries might leave the euro.
Times, Sunday Times
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The leaf bits were drying up and falling apart, having been taken off fresh corn plants in Georgia fields several days before.
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The prairie sloughs are drying up this year but still a great blue heron rises, dips across the road and veers toward storm clouds massing in the west - the sound of one small engine, tires on pavement, turning wheels.
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But the hopes fell flat, and private funding for vaccine work is drying up.
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It comes amid concern that company payouts are drying up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Things are going to begin drying up for Mr. Obamy.
Mississippi Democrat distances himself from Obama
