How to Use dry up in a Sentence

dry up

verb

• 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
• Small streams that dry up for part of the year are easy to overlook.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
• As for the other two-thirds of glaciers, many are on track to dry up by 2100.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022
• Some of those streams now dry up for as many as 100 days longer each year.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• 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 affected buds fail to open and either dry up or rot.
  — oregonlive, 31 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• The dry conditions have increased the risk of wildfires, dried up streams, and brought reservoirs to dangerously low levels, AccuWeather warned.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024