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
• 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
• 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 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
• Chances for rain will begin to dry up as the week progresses, Smith said.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2024
• Fragile parts that plants can replace next spring, such as leaves and stalks, dry up.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2021
• The remains began appearing as the lake dried up amid the recent drought.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023
• Soon after, the giant was revealed as a hoax, and ticket sales dried up.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
• As the ’80s came to a close, and modeling jobs dried up, a friend suggested Norman walk at a drag ball uptown.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024