run low
Verb
Meaning
to be spent or finished
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Examples
The money had gone after a few days
Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest
After about an hour, Pelham's ammunition began to run low and he withdrew.
Now beginning to run low on cash, Alvin borrows a cordless phone from a homeowner – gently but resolutely refusing an invitation to come indoors – and calls Rose to ask her to send him his Social Security check.
His vampirism seems to be a fit that comes on him when his vital energy begins to run low; he is a regular, normally functioning person between feedings.
By the time of the California primary in June 1956, Kefauver's campaign had run low on money and could not compete for publicity and advertising with the well-funded Stevenson.