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
• But this font of renewal dries up: an eighty-year-old’s bone marrow contains two hundred times fewer stem cells than a newborn’s.
  — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
• So the national operations are bracing for the domino effect that would ensue if funding dries up in the fall.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 16 July 2025