run out of gas

Thomas Fries, whose aviation and consulting company Lead Turn owns the plane, told The Times that the aircraft had run out of gas.

Rory McIlroy made a dart with five back-nine birdies in a row, only to run out of gas, finding water at the 15th from the middle of the fairway just 130 yards out.

"A vicious cycle is established -- it's almost like you're pressing the gas pedal so your car can run out of gas but someone else continues to refill the tank, so it never runs out."

But with California’s new minimum wage for fast-food workers taking effect this month, Foronda says he’s starting to run out of gas.

He had studied the maps, read the history and come up with the money to try to prove that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, had miscalculated their location, run out of gas and perished after ditching their plane in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.