run dry

Example Sentences

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We are worried the honey pot will run dry.

From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026

Let the SPR run dry, perhaps by gradually selling forward contracts on its output.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

An overhaul of municipal water supply systems would address the "dysfunction" that had seen taps run dry in many towns and cities, he said, adding he would head a new National Water Crisis Committee.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

But he added that this water eventually will go away as the glaciers continue to retreat, and that some streams, like those that feed the Tuolumne River in Yosemite, will run dry at times.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

A scarred ruin belching smoke, the only fireman dispatched to extinguish it slouched in defeat, blistered and weary, his hose run dry.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs