dried-up
Example Sentences
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Running a big food company these days is like fishing in a dried-up pond.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
She cited a decline in advertising, dried-up investment reserves, digital monetization issues “and overall cost increases that have not kept pace with revenue.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
At 112-5, England were in danger of being overwhelmed on a pitch that resembled a dried-up riverbed.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2024
Ingenuity remains in contact with its companion, the Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up riverbed for signs of extinct Martian life.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Money to install water pipes, or to repair the electric wires that had gone down in the storm and hung like limp, useless, dried-up worms.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
