Examples of 'run dry' in a sentence

Meaning of "run dry"

run dry - to be depleted or exhausted, especially in terms of a resource like water or energy
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  • To become dry; to cease to flow with water.
  • To run out; to be fully consumed; to expire.

How to use "run dry" in a sentence

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run dry
The pump must never run dry.
He had run dry and was desperate.
This pump must not be run dry.
The lining is able to run dry or partially lubricated.
Do not allow the pump to run dry.
This pond does not run dry even in summer.
The pump should not be run dry.
They can run dry indefinitely.
Do not let the pump run dry.
Can run dry in slower speeds.
Do not let your well run dry.
My patience may run dry before his trust sets in.
Do not let your tears run dry.
Have run dry of screams.
Never allow the column to run dry.

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The pump may run dry and thereby be damaged.
But the source is threatening to run dry.
That mine was run dry long before they closed it.
To that moment when words run dry.
The mines run dry and coal is replaced by charcoal.
Those rivers have long run dry.
I have run dry on sympathy.
Do not let the steamer run dry.
The river has run dry because of the drought.
Never allow the pump to run dry.
The spring might have run dry or changed course.
And my heart seems to have run dry.
It appears that you have run dry of the sacred nectar.
And her milk is starting to run dry.
Do not let the pump run dry for extended periods.
The oils of the earth run dry.
Never allow the pump to run dry of the fluid being pumped.
The spring has never run dry.
The well will run dry before the end of summer.
But the well has run dry.
Will the well run dry and the children cry.
Till all the seas run dry.
Seas run dry.
This well has never run dry.
Can run dry.
The temp work has run dry.
Do not let the pumps run dry for extended periods of time.
I would hate to see you run dry.
My throat had run dry and you did not offer me water even.
If the sea should suddenly run dry.
Certain tributaries frequently run dry due to a lack of rainfall in the summer.
Else the well will run dry.
Mothers just run dry because they breastfed all the children.
I am like a river that has run dry.
Wells run dry because they can not reach the water.

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