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单词 run dry
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run dry

phrase
If a river or well runs dry, it no longer has any water in it. If an oil well runs dry, it no longer produces any oil.
Streams had run dry for the first time in memory.
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run dry

phrase
If a source of information or money runs dry, no more information or money can be obtained from it.
Three days into production, the kitty had run dry.
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Examples of 'run dry' in a sentence
run dry

The well has well and truly run dry.
The Sun (2011)
Many smaller farmers and families have found that their wells are running dry.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We don't want the well to run dry.
The Sun (2015)
That is all very well until the runs dry up, as they have in this series.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
After that, our well runs dry.
Kantrow, Alan M. The Constraints of Corporate Tradition (1987)
The well was running dry.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
One in ten of the world's main rivers now runs dry at some point each year before it can reach the sea.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
One day, though, the wells will run dry.
The Sun (2016)
He could do with some runs now, the well having run dry since Cardiff.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The Málaga of last year would have had the funds; the oil well has since run dry.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
For decades England could boast the best keepers in the world - but now the well has run dry.
The Sun (2006)
Given the snail's pace of our roadworks, the oil wells would have run dry before the first lane was finished.
The Sun (2009)
That the money has run dry will make a coherent reform plan for the public realm more, rather than less, important.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
While rivers and ponds ran dry across the country, restaurant tables were finding their way outside onto London pavements for the first time.
David Boyle AUTHENTICITY: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life (2003)
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