How to Use dry up in a Sentence
dry up
verb
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Then Covid-19 gripped the globe, and all their gigs dried up.
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Tracy Scott Forson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Mar. 2024
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But the calls stopped and leads dried up three years ago.
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Taylor Luck,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Oct. 2023
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Yes, but: Over the years, the lake has dried up due to silt buildup.
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Linh Ta,
Axios,
27 Sep. 2024
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There was water on the ground, but the seedlings had dried up.
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The Arizona Republic,
15 Mar. 2024
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Small streams that dry up for part of the year are easy to overlook.
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Erik Stokstad,
Science | AAAS,
12 Aug. 2021
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As for the other two-thirds of glaciers, many are on track to dry up by 2100.
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Nov. 2022
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Some of those streams now dry up for as many as 100 days longer each year.
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Ian James,
AZCentral.com,
7 Sep. 2021
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In the short term, Musk can ill-afford sales in a key market to dry up.
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Bychristiaan Hetzner,
Fortune Europe,
24 Nov. 2023
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When the water of the Paluxy River that runs through the park began to dry up, the tracks appeared.
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Jenny Goldsberry,
Washington Examiner,
3 Sep. 2023
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Toothpaste—the opaque kind, not gel—can be used to dry up pimples.
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Nerisha Penrose,
ELLE,
30 Jan. 2023
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But that plan faltered in the spring as city and state budgets dried up.
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Liam Dillon,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Aug. 2024
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The mass on the ground in the photo looks like dog vomit slime mold that is starting to dry up.
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Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2023
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The new research shows that crucial aquifers around the world are drying up.
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Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
24 Jan. 2024
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After the blossoms fade, the stems dry up, and bright green, strappy leaves emerge.
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Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
22 Aug. 2023
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Worse yet, the revenue stream at the ticket window had dried up.
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Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
29 Feb. 2024
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Leaving the bed unmade and exposing the sheets to light can cause the mites to dry up and die.
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Washington Post,
12 Dec. 2021
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Once Nico Collins and Robert Woods are fully healthy, the targets could dry up.
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Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Nov. 2023
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Did session work dry up in the Nineties once the industry changed?
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Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2023
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The support soon faded, the phone stopped ringing and the public praise dried up.
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William K. Rashbaum,
New York Times,
12 May 2024
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Once the water dries up or seeps away, the rice is harvested.
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Jehangir Bhadha,
The Conversation,
8 Aug. 2024
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But the bad Marvel movies didn’t dry up after the early 2000s.
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Jacob Siegal,
BGR,
4 Apr. 2022
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If the lake continues to dry up, the repercussions would be many.
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Jacob Freeman and McCaulee Blackburn,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
28 Nov. 2022
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And as the airwaves dried up, data streams began to flow.
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Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
4 Sep. 2024
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Once the 64 spots on NHL depth charts are locked in, the money for everyone else dries up.
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Corey Masisak,
The Denver Post,
20 June 2024
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But the pipeline of these cases from the jungles of Colombia to North Texas may soon dry up.
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Dallas News,
24 Oct. 2022
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When the summer dry season begins, all of that grass and brush dries up.
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Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
17 Jan. 2025
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The affected buds fail to open and either dry up or rot.
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oregonlive,
31 July 2021
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In the Sermon, all brooks and ponds will dry up with its appearance.
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Natasha Gural,
Forbes,
11 June 2021
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Despite that, his acting work dried up and he was dropped by WME.
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K.j. Yossman,
Variety,
2 Jan. 2025
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During firefighters’ response to the Palisades Fire, some high elevation fire hydrants dried up, hampering efforts to fight the blaze.
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Evan Bush,
NBC News,
11 Jan. 2025
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