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run low

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All of which is to say that if oil goes much higher from here, the U.S. economy could start to run low on gas.

“If you run low, let me know,” she is said to have texted her customer.

Water and electricity were cut and food supplies began to run low.

On more than one state occasion she has had to devise something in a hurry because her wardrobe had run low.

On the Karoo, just crossed, wild animals were so scarce and shy, that with all the skill of their hunters the larder had run low.

The delays caused by their stay in the mountains and physical hardships had made their store of provisions run low.

His stock of films was beginning to run low, and only special subjects must claim his attention from now on.

Our larder had run low again, and Jennifer had spent the earlier hours of the night abroad—to little purpose, as it chanced.

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On this page you'll find 183 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to run low, such as: abate, curb, curtail, cut down, decline, and depreciate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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