How to Use dry up in a Sentence

dry up

verb
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  • Then Covid-19 gripped the globe, and all their gigs dried up.
    — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But the calls stopped and leads dried up three years ago.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Yes, but: Over the years, the lake has dried up due to silt buildup.
    — Linh Ta, Axios, 27 Sep. 2024
  • There was water on the ground, but the seedlings had dried up.
    — The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
  • As for the other two-thirds of glaciers, many are on track to dry up by 2100.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022
  • In the short term, Musk can ill-afford sales in a key market to dry up.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune Europe, 24 Nov. 2023
  • When the water of the Paluxy River that runs through the park began to dry up, the tracks appeared.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Toothpaste—the opaque kind, not gel—can be used to dry up pimples.
    — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 30 Jan. 2023
  • But that plan faltered in the spring as city and state budgets dried up.
    — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The mass on the ground in the photo looks like dog vomit slime mold that is starting to dry up.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The new research shows that crucial aquifers around the world are drying up.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
  • After the blossoms fade, the stems dry up, and bright green, strappy leaves emerge.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Worse yet, the revenue stream at the ticket window had dried up.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Leaving the bed unmade and exposing the sheets to light can cause the mites to dry up and die.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Once Nico Collins and Robert Woods are fully healthy, the targets could dry up.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Did session work dry up in the Nineties once the industry changed?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The support soon faded, the phone stopped ringing and the public praise dried up.
    — William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 12 May 2024
  • Once the water dries up or seeps away, the rice is harvested.
    — Jehangir Bhadha, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2024
  • But the bad Marvel movies didn’t dry up after the early 2000s.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 4 Apr. 2022
  • If the lake continues to dry up, the repercussions would be many.
    — Jacob Freeman and McCaulee Blackburn, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
  • And as the airwaves dried up, data streams began to flow.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Once the 64 spots on NHL depth charts are locked in, the money for everyone else dries up.
    — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 20 June 2024
  • But the pipeline of these cases from the jungles of Colombia to North Texas may soon dry up.
    — Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The first downs have all dried up, as has Marcus Jones’s ability to call for a fair catch.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • We aren’t done with rain yet, but things look to start drying up the second half of the weekend.
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Chances for rain will begin to dry up as the week progresses, Smith said.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Fragile parts that plants can replace next spring, such as leaves and stalks, dry up.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The remains began appearing as the lake dried up amid the recent drought.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Popescu said that vote-buying can only achieve fleeting results: When the money dries up, so will the support.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Natural gas pipeline exports dried up, with a trickle still passing through Ukraine and up to 38 billion cubic meters per year going to China.
    — Suriya Jayanti, TIME, 20 Oct. 2024

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