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running out
verb as in fail, be exhausted
Example Sentences
Patients and health care providers are running out of time looking for potential answers.
With time running out, aid groups are ending their registration efforts.
“Time is running out,” Brandy McDaniels of the Pit River Nation said last month at COP 16, the United Nations biodiversity summit in Colombia, bringing the plea to a world stage.
"We are running out of effective antibiotics and their rampant use over the decades has resulted in antibiotics being spread across the globe, from the arctic to the oceans and our groundwater," said Süel.
In August the BBC had learned that the prison system "came within 100 places" of running out of space altogether.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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