How to Use run dry in a Sentence

run dry

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  • The big question is if the well will run dry sooner rather than later.
    — Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Running on fumes But after more than four years of war, that well is running dry.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • Because our airports need capital, and the old ways of raising it are running dry.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • While federal pandemic aid has boosted the state budget for years, that funding is running dry.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
  • At the 2024 Le Mans, a nighttime safety car period lasted four hours, and tanks began to run dry.
    — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 11 July 2026
  • The well of initiation ran dry, and Wilson desperately created offense out of necessity.
    — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 11 July 2026
  • San Diego County will pay $3 million to the widow of a diabetic man who died in jail when his insulin pump ran dry and medical workers failed to resupply it for more than 19 hours.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2026
  • The Pentagon is already limiting training as its funding runs dry, The Washington Post reported.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 22 July 2026
  • The trust fund that supplements incoming payroll taxes to pay monthly Social Security benefits is expected to run dry by the end of 2032, according to the program's trustees.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 16 July 2026
  • This includes modernizing aging classrooms, replacing outdated systems and upgrading student spaces, and comes at a time when the district’s well of previous bond money from measures passed in 2002 and 2008 is running dry.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026
  • The Social Security trust fund will run dry in 2032, unless Congress combines the program's old-age and disability funds, in which case insolvency would arrive in 2034, the report found.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 July 2026

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