How to Use dry up in a Sentence

dry up

verb
  • When that work dries up, claimants rise.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But when holes dried up, so did his yards.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The grant used to pay her salary had dried up.
    — Darlene Superville, Fortune, 29 May 2026
  • On and on, until all sources dry up.
    — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
  • What if the offense hadn’t dried up?
    — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Trick the service, and those tips dry up.
    — Boris Kontsevoi, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Ponds and streams are drying up.
    — Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 2 May 2026
  • But those shipments have now dried up.
    — ABC News, 20 Feb. 2026
  • But as the decade ended, his work dried up.
    — Victoria Edel, People.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Now, as money dries up, jobs drop off.
    — Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There was water on the ground, but the seedlings had dried up.
    — The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Small streams that dry up for part of the year are easy to overlook.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Sure enough, wins have been hard to come by since this team's turnover luck dried up.
    — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
  • The hope has been left in the desert, and the goodwill has dried up.
    — Diamond Vences, Charlotte Observer, 14 Sep. 2025
  • One day, the Mediterranean might dry up again.
    — Elizabeth Fernandez, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Salt pulls moisture from the roots, grass blades wilt, then dry up and die.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The moss should shrivel and dry up very quickly.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 June 2026
  • And yet those pipelines may be drying up.
    — Jeffrey Selingo, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Then Covid-19 gripped the globe, and all their gigs dried up.
    — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The sporadic phone calls he was allowed with his sons dried up.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Step away before your ideas dry up, not after.
    — Rochelle Ratkaj, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But that plan faltered in the spring as city and state budgets dried up.
    — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • However, as the skies have dried up, that progress has stopped.
    — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Larger droplets fall to the ground quickly; very small droplets dry up.
    — Popular Science, 6 Oct. 2020
  • As the track dried up, some of the cars started pitting for slick tires.
    — Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
  • Toothpaste—the opaque kind, not gel—can be used to dry up pimples.
    — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 30 Jan. 2023
  • If the sauce has dried up, add a few splashes of water to loosen it.
    — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Some of those streams now dry up for as many as 100 days longer each year.
    — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • After the bloom, there are no more nodes on the stem; the stems dry up and turn brown and green.
    — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Just don’t wait too long to check out, since the markdowns dry up in a matter of hours.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 10 July 2025

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