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Grammar : Verb

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Définition of run dry

As in peter out : verb dwindle, decrease
As in waste : verb spend or use without thought; dwindle
As in dissipate : verb disappear

Example sentences :

Little by little the rivers begin to run dry—there is no rain to feed them.
Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne

Yet the source of love and humor in Jewish poetry had not run dry.
Extract from : « Jewish Literature and Other Essays » by Gustav Karpeles

At length all this eloquence had run dry, and the business of the evening began.
Extract from : « Wenderholme » by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Neglected bearings which run dry are ruined in a short time.
Extract from : « Paper-Cutting Machines » by Niel, Jr., Gray

It was nothing but an empty watercourse into which he was staring—the river had run dry!
Extract from : « Gentlemen Rovers » by E. Alexander Powell

This showed that the stream of reinforcements was beginning to run dry.
Extract from : « South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) » by Louis Creswicke

She fell into a passion of tears and lamentation until her tears had run dry, and she was exhausted with sobbing.
Extract from : « Albrecht » by Arlo Bates

Afar, families were seen fleeing on horseback toward the bed of a creek which they hoped to find flowing, but which had run dry.
Extract from : « In The Boyhood of Lincoln » by Hezekiah Butterworth

It is out of the question to buy every convenient thing, or purse will run dry and house overflow.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 » by Various

Lacking the reinforcement of discussion, the stream of Mina's lamentation began to run dry.
Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope

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