ran dry

His father ran dry-cleaning stores; his mother worked graveyard shifts as a nurse .

This image was taken after Spitzer's liquid coolant ran dry in May 2009, marking the beginning of its "warm" mission.

If our own taps ran dry or our sewers stopped working, the UK would come to a standstill very quickly.

Mr. Perez's strategy of using intellectual-property lawsuits to raise cash hit a snag this year, when the pipeline of settlements ran dry.

Emotions crystallised two years ago, when the town's water ran dry because of a pump failure, but Poland Spring's operations carried on.

The River Wey ran dry during the recent drought.

In Mexico City, the largest city in the Americas with a population of 22. 9m, taps ran dry for several months of 2009.

The lake ran dry during the drought.

The little pond ran dry.

The old well was bricked up when it ran dry.

After it ran dry I began asking Kevin to print pages for me on his office printer, which itself is quite possibly Chinese;

If the seas ran dry, turned to dust,