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run dry

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Verb1.run dry - become empty of water; "The river runs dry in the summer"
dry out
dry out, dry - become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun"


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His flow of language seemed at last to have run dry.
No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context
A cog must have slipped or an oil- cup run dry, for the postman brought him one morning a short, thin envelope.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
Behind the most ancient part of Holborn, London, where certain gabled houses some centuries of age still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles, called Staple Inn.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
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