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Definition of Run dry
1. Verb. Become empty of water. "The river runs dry in the summer"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Run Dry
Literary usage of Run dry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"World Outl 3:3-5 Je •17 759-63 D '16 When the wells run dry; poem. World Outl In
the firefly? Science ns 46:241-3 S 7 '17 Harvey, Ell, 1860- Little Miss ..."
2. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1851)
"... And he swore by the word of his saintship, That fountain should never run dry.
My children, be chaste till you're tempted—While sober, ..."
3. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1862)
"... With liquor the best in the sky, And he swore by the word of his saintship,
That fountain should never run dry. My children, be chaste till you're ..."
4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1900)
"... wellspring of the social energy of holiness; and if the springs be not constantly
replenished, the streams will inevitably run dry. JOHN W. DIGGLE. ..."
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