run dry
Example Sentences
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Perhaps these sentimental tears will run dry in the next generation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
We are worried the honey pot will run dry.
From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026
The water-stressed nation has also been through severe droughts and periods of low rainfall with entire towns warned their taps could run dry.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
Where aquifer levels decline, wells and faucets increasingly sputter and run dry, people drill deeper and the land can sink as underground spaces collapse.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025
Some blamed it on themselves, acknowledging that the passion they had had for teaching twenty years ago had run dry.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
