VERB
-
to be spent or finished
Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest
The money had gone after a few days
How To Use run short In A Sentence
- The city was under siege and began to run short of food.
- American financial firm to run short of cash. Times, Sunday Times
- A few years ago environmentalists argued that fertiliser would soon run short, because it is made using natural gas, a fossil fuel. Times, Sunday Times
- They had run short of fuel.
- He was packing a supply of light needfuls, of which the lumbermen had unexpectedly run short, and he was pressing forward in haste to avoid The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life
- The new creature eats too much fruit . We are going to run short, most likely.
- If the vanguard gets too far ahead of the supply train, it will run short of food, fuel and ammunition.
- It was highly probable, too, that among the victims about to be transported were many who had been his own subjects; for these African potentates do not scruple to make merchandise of their own people, when cash or "cowries" run short, and their enemies have been too strong to be captured. Ran Away to Sea
- They had run short of fuel.
- He was dismissed just one run short of his ninth Test fifty with the score on 215 but he had ensured the team had posted a safe score, though conceding a lead of 58 runs.
