run dry

However, their absence from the charts was a far cry from a trail of failed hits, remnants of creativity run dry.

As the baby grew hungry, she would have discovered that captured mothers initially run dry of milk.

At some point, he began to realize that, when it came to his own doom and gloom, the well was beginning to run dry.

It is out of the question to buy every convenient thing, or purse will run dry and house overflow.

There were few people about at this hour, and the little stream of traffic had run dry in the Via Cavour.

Inwardly he was shocked to find the stream of whisky run dry.

Nor had he seen his talent slowly expire: the spring did not run dry by degrees: it suddenly sank into the ground.

This it was to which he looked alone, and in which he felt that he had a river of supply that can never run dry.