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
• These machines need gallons of gas to operate and nearby gas stations in two states ran dry.
  — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026
• Because our airports need capital, and the old ways of raising it are running dry.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
• Others worry that wells and aquifers could run dry or electricity bills will skyrocket.
  — Marc Levy, Fortune, 19 Aug. 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
• However, by 2033, when the trust runs dry, this increases to $705 a month.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026
• While there is no solid evidence that psychics can solve crimes, some law enforcement agencies use them when traditional leads run dry.
  — Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
• His taconite mine in Virginia paused operations more than a year ago, which means unemployment benefits have run dry.
  — Erin Hassanzadeh, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
• The district has felt the strain more acutely in recent years after billions in federal pandemic relief dollars ran dry.
  — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
• Eventually, the market for new factories in China will run dry, as did the market for property.
  — Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026
• Medicare’s Hospital Insurance fund is estimated to run dry around the same time.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 27 Aug. 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 trust fund the program relies on to pay retirement benefits is expected to run dry in six years, at which point those monthly checks would be funded only by payroll taxes.
  — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
• As businesses reopened almost overnight, inventories at every level of the supply chain had run dry, demand surged, and freight rates spiked to record levels at a moment when there were simply not enough trucks on the road.
  — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
• The Forbes Five-Star spa there runs dry saunas lined with Himalayan salt walls, steam rooms and both hot and cold plunge pools, the kind of setup built for exactly the aches a ski day leaves behind.
  — Winston Ross, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
• Restaurants that had gotten regular deliveries from its Charlotte facility to feed hungry breakfast customers had also run dry.
  — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 4 Aug. 2026
• The well of initiation ran dry, and Wilson desperately created offense out of necessity.
  — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 11 July 2026
• Experts don’t currently believe there is a risk of people’s taps running dry; the Colorado River is a slow-moving crisis and many water managers have taken steps to prepare.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 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
• By the end of the sales phase this week, more than 40 of the 50-plus sports had run dry; fewer than 10 still had tickets listed, according to several fans who were randomly selected for the opportunity to purchase.
  — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
• The wreck of a steam tugboat dating from the early 1900s is the latest relic to emerge from shrinking waters in Serbia as Europe's rivers run dry, with the continent engulfed in prolonged, extreme heat and drought.
  — CBS News, 20 Aug. 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
• About 26 years ago, Social Security’s trustees were already projecting the trust funds to run dry in 2037, after which payroll taxes would cover only 72% of benefits.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 27 Aug. 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
• The Social Security 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, 12 Aug. 2026
• The trust fund for Social Security is due to run dry in a little under eight years, and Medicare in a little under seven years, according to estimates by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026
• Deaths have mounted in recent weeks as Ukraine runs dry of Patriot interceptors and Russia increasingly targets Kyiv’s civilian logistics, raising concerns that Moscow could force emigration by starving swathes of Ukraine of food and electricity.
  — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026