run dry

Little by little the rivers begin to run dry—there is no rain to feed them.

Yet the source of love and humor in Jewish poetry had not run dry.

At length all this eloquence had run dry, and the business of the evening began.

Neglected bearings which run dry are ruined in a short time.

It was nothing but an empty watercourse into which he was staring—the river had run dry!

This showed that the stream of reinforcements was beginning to run dry.

She fell into a passion of tears and lamentation until her tears had run dry, and she was exhausted with sobbing.

Afar, families were seen fleeing on horseback toward the bed of a creek which they hoped to find flowing, but which had run dry.

It is out of the question to buy every convenient thing, or purse will run dry and house overflow.

Lacking the reinforcement of discussion, the stream of Mina's lamentation began to run dry.