How to Use run short in a Sentence

run short

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  • Advertisement Residents say the city is running short of several supplies needed to care for survivors and recover the dead.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 29 June 2026
  • Added to this, Whitehall has historically faced criticism for treating the armed forces as a budget piggy bank to be raided whenever public funds run short.
    — David Szondy july 01, New Atlas, 1 July 2026
  • This is a government and its two national champions agreeing to spend a decade and the better part of $600 billion to make more of the one thing the AI economy keeps running short of.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Social Security’s main trust fund is projected to run short in 2032, raising the possibility of across‑the‑board benefit cuts.
    — Steve Vernon, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Medicare is prohibited by law from covering weight-loss drugs, but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is allowed to run short-term demonstration projects to test new payment and coverage models.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • The audit released June 30 dinged the beleaguered spacecraft’s tumultuous and still uncertain path toward certification and warns that the timetable for its use to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station is running short.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2026

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