run out

Example Sentences

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Should online retailers tell customers when items they are shopping for are in low supply and might run out?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Social Security’s trust fund is expected to run out of money in 2032, at which point beneficiaries will receive only 78% of promised benefits, the Social Security and Medicare boards of trustees said on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

In other words, the reserves his company and others have been tapping — including the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve, which is supposed to be used only for global emergencies — are about to run out.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

But the rally has run out of steam lately.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Or at least run out of words he wanted to say.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix