run dry

Meanwhile, as the pipeline at the former Grangemouth oil refinery runs dry as production ends there was some good news.

“I had run dry when I spent that vitality in worship of lovers. In celibacy, I felt more vital, fecund, wet, than I had in years.”

I wondered if maybe the tap had run dry, if the saying was true: being happy is not inspiring.

Such improvements are intended to prevent the sort of problems firefighters encountered as hydrants lost pressure and ran dry in some areas.

In 2022, taps ran dry in parts of the sprawling industrial metropolis of Monterrey, with many of the region’s 5 million residents without regular running water for months.