How to Use dry up in a Sentence

dry up

verb

• Then Covid-19 gripped the globe, and all their gigs dried up.
  — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• But the calls stopped and leads dried up three years ago.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• Yes, but: Over the years, the lake has dried up due to silt buildup.
  — Linh Ta, Axios, 27 Sep. 2024
• There was water on the ground, but the seedlings had dried up.
  — The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
• Even so, the trains stopped coming and the crowds dried up.
  — Edward Carr, 1843, 29 Aug. 2019
• Small streams that dry up for part of the year are easy to overlook.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
• As for the other two-thirds of glaciers, many are on track to dry up by 2100.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022
• In the meantime, new orders for the 737 Max have dried up.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 17 Dec. 2019
• Some of those streams now dry up for as many as 100 days longer each year.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• As the track dried up, some of the cars started pitting for slick tires.
  — Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
• In the short term, Musk can ill-afford sales in a key market to dry up.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune Europe, 24 Nov. 2023
• When the water of the Paluxy River that runs through the park began to dry up, the tracks appeared.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2023
• Toothpaste—the opaque kind, not gel—can be used to dry up pimples.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 30 Jan. 2023
• But that plan faltered in the spring as city and state budgets dried up.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• The mass on the ground in the photo looks like dog vomit slime mold that is starting to dry up.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• The pair’s efforts gave Boise State the platform to hang in with the Aggies when the shots dried up late in the first half.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 27 Feb. 2025
• With the election in the rearview, that ad money is drying up.
  — Alex Cranz, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
• Just don’t wait too long to check out, since the markdowns dry up in a matter of hours.
  — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 10 July 2025
• For Russell there is a twinge of fear that, at her age, the stories will dry up.
  — Carrie Battan, Town & Country, 25 Nov. 2019
• The new research shows that crucial aquifers around the world are drying up.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
• After the blossoms fade, the stems dry up, and bright green, strappy leaves emerge.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
• Worse yet, the revenue stream at the ticket window had dried up.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• Larger droplets fall to the ground quickly; very small droplets dry up.
  — Popular Science, 6 Oct. 2020
• Leaving the bed unmade and exposing the sheets to light can cause the mites to dry up and die.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2021
• Once Nico Collins and Robert Woods are fully healthy, the targets could dry up.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
• Then as the days and weeks passed, help started drying up, Ms. Green says.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2025
• By morning the flowers have dried up, petals drifting to the desert floor.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
• Did session work dry up in the Nineties once the industry changed?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2023
• Hydrants drying up within hours of the ignition of blazes in January proved an issue in the spread of the fires.
  — Michael Loria, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
• From July to October, the middle to end of the dry season, the water dries up in the bush and the animals tend to stick closer to the lake, this is the best time for wildlife viewing.
  — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2025