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run dry

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  1. become empty of water
    The river runs dry in the summer

How To Use run dry In A Sentence

  • The 30 children spent six months working on Spaced Out - a story of four children who are kidnapped and whisked off to Mars to make sherbet for aliens whose supplies have run dry.
  • The danger is that excellence is gradually eroded as universities watch their funding streams run dry. Times, Sunday Times
  • The streams run dry on poisoned land, where stands the angel of the key, in hailfire strafing spume and sand as fish rot on a wormwood sea. Archive 2009-07-01
  • Native resources of scientific talent and ingenuity have not run dry.
  • Now, however, the well has run dry and the same people who were duped into funding the excesses will have to pay for picking up the pieces.
  • Potential buyers of the cash-strapped club need to firm up their interest before the end of this week, when City's coffers are expected to run dry.
  • Three days into production, the kitty had run dry.
  • The danger is that excellence is gradually eroded as universities watch their funding streams run dry. Times, Sunday Times
  • With the release of Quantum of Solace, a title lifted from a Fleming short story, the Bond well has just about run dry. MI6 :: 007 News
  • There are still, as on the first days of creation, rivers whose founts never run dry, green and watery solitudes, and limitless fields never yet turned by the ploughshare.
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