How to Use dry up in a Sentence

dry up

verb

• Some of those streams now dry up for as many as 100 days longer each year.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• As the years passed, tips came in less and less frequently and, over time, dried up entirely.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2024
• Lenders could demand higher interest and federal funding could dry up.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
• Forecasters couldn’t predict how quickly Colorado River reservoirs would dry up this year.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2021
• Though guttation is a common occurrence on these fruiting bodies, the bright red droplets eventually dry up and turn more brown colored.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
• Where hay farms have expanded in La Paz County, some families have seen their wells suddenly dry up.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2021
• The amphibians often lay their gelatinous eggs in pools of water to provide the moisture needed to develop properly—but those pools can dry up.
  — Sandrine Ceurstemont, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
• Additionally, decongestants help relieve stuffiness and dry up the mucus in your nose.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 22 Oct. 2024
• Blue skies returned to the Bay Area on Thursday, quickly drying up most of the evidence that the first of two storms ever arrived.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
• And as watering holes dry up, nutrients and other compounds in the water become more concentrated, which can sicken animals.
  — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• For marketers that depend upon hyper-relevant targeting to interact with their audience—the process gets more complicated, and the data access stream may ‘dry up’.
  — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024