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
• While federal pandemic aid has boosted the state budget for years, that funding is running dry.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 2 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• This includes modernizing aging classrooms, replacing outdated systems and upgrading student spaces, and comes at a time when the district’s well of previous bond money from measures passed in 2002 and 2008 is running dry.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