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• When supplies started to run low, a Facebook post led to constant dropoffs throughout the rest of the day.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Aug. 2022
• And the county is starting to run low on hospital beds.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 7 Dec. 2020
• With Bay Area grocery stores starting to run low on Sriracha, local fans might have to soon — gasp!
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June 2022
• If the colony’s food stores run low, the repletes regurgitate what’s in their bellies for other ants to feed on.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• The bad weather shuts down power to the local bar, and at the same time, the establishment starts to run low on Budweiser.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
• Overwhelmed by the triple threat of deaths, the office said its funding began to run low in October and the office needed to ask for more to make it through the end of the year.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Dec. 2021
• Yang Beibei, deputy head of Chaoyang district tried to assure citizens that supplies would not run low.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
• When select items run low, families can get more of other foods of their choosing.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
• Consumers’ savings have begun to run low and credit card balances have risen.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• Consumers’ savings have begun to run low and credit card balances have risen.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• When its battery begins to run low, the robot parks itself near a wall and waits to be fished out using a pole (the hook attachment is included in the box).
  — Brad Moon, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Finding new ways to rejuvenate when our batteries run low is crucial to make it through hard times.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
• As shells whistle overhead and provisions run low, Sergeyich seems to think of only one thing — beekeeping.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2022
• As a result, the supermarkets run low on produce during the swell season, which runs from December to April.
  — Kate Springer, CNN, 24 Dec. 2022
• That has been observed in Hong Kong, which has a relatively low vaccination rate among its seniors and has run low on coffins.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, was then among the first cities to run low on money for Covid testing last autumn.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• Some mines are being modified as the original reserves run low.
  — Vipal Monga, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• Thin Mints and other favorites are plentiful, but some states have run low on the new Adventurefuls cookie.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
• Ukraine has run low on Soviet-era shells and has largely shifted to firing artillery guns and rounds donated by the United States and its allies.
  — Adam Entous, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• In the southwestern Missouri city of Joplin, a bastion of Trump support, mask use has been spotty even as infection rates remain high and testing kits run low.
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
• By the afternoon, the American tanks and Bradleys farther north began to run low on fuel and ammunition.
  — William Branigin, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• Nationwide, hospitals are struggling with shortages as ICU beds run low and staff runs even lower.
  — Rachel Wegner, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2020
• Other food and drink items that have run low recently include chicken, alcohol and even Lunchables.
  — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2021
• Pumping out groundwater when rivers run low further depletes surface water because the two are linked.
  — Erica Gies, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
• According to Rowe, no one was injured but officials scrambled to salvage food for residents as stocks run low.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• Emmett and Regan embark on a hopeful journey while Evelyn and Marcus try to keep a newborn baby alive even as crucial supplies run low.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• Some makers of toys, games and other consumer goods are racing to figure out how to get products to market, and having to decide which customers will receive orders as stocks run low.
  — WSJ, 19 Dec. 2021
• As supplies of hospital beds, oxygen and vaccines run low, criticism of the government is building.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2021
• When your iron stores run low, iron deficiency anemia can develop.
  — Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2023
• And states may have to make more detailed decisions, such as whether to put emergency room doctors and nurses ahead of other healthcare workers if vaccine supplies run low.
  — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024