Example Sentences

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On Wednesday, at a travel agency near Al Ustad Special Kebab that advertised “flights to Persia,” the owner said his business to and from Iran had dried up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

More than eight million Venezuelans fled over the last 12 years, including many criminals whose profits from robberies, kidnappings and extortion had dried up, security analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Bishop said the well they had been using to water the grass had dried up and the volunteers who had initially helped breathe life to the cemetery started to leave.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2025

Simon Brown, a Met Office director, told MPs on Wednesday relatively dry weather two weeks before Storm Bert "generally meant soil conditions had dried out" suggesting "there wasn't going to be as much flooding".

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2024

By the time I was out of the pool and had dried myself, the watch was there, bright and new and as Ronald McDonaldish as could be.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge