run low
idiom
1
: to have a small supply of something because the rest of it has already been used up
We are running low on fuel.
2
: to be available in less than the needed amount
Supplies were running low.
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Granted, the real estate inventory tends to run low, and the average home value in the city is $531,463.
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2025
Samsung’s Family Hub, for example, tracks your food inventory, suggests recipes, and even orders groceries when supplies run low.
—Anisha Sircar, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Hyun-ju and the others soon run low on ammo, so jittery Dae-ho is deployed to run back to the dorm and fish clips from the dead guards’ jumpsuit pockets.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 Dec. 2024
The researchers discovered the protein clumps were also lurking in some mitochondria of human pancreatic cancer cells—tumors often outgrow their blood supply and thus run low on nutrients.
—Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 Nov. 2024
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2025
Samsung’s Family Hub, for example, tracks your food inventory, suggests recipes, and even orders groceries when supplies run low.
—Anisha Sircar, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Hyun-ju and the others soon run low on ammo, so jittery Dae-ho is deployed to run back to the dorm and fish clips from the dead guards’ jumpsuit pockets.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 Dec. 2024
The researchers discovered the protein clumps were also lurking in some mitochondria of human pancreatic cancer cells—tumors often outgrow their blood supply and thus run low on nutrients.
—Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 Nov. 2024
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“Run low.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run%20low. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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