Sentence examples for come up dry from inspiring English sources

Now, in this case they'll probably come up dry.

Researching we will, more often than not, come up dry.

But they have come up dry for any money in Mr. Taylor's name.

So far, though, the wells have come up dry or disappointing.

Its oil is easy to get at and test wells rarely come up dry.

They had tried and tried to get something on Zack but had come up dry.

It came up dry.

Researchers hunting for a "risk gene" came up dry: instead they discovered that environmental factors triumphed.

There may be good reasons for coming up dry so far.

The day before, the Ilgers came up dry at the state archives in Harrisburg.

Remember, after all those years of front-page headlines and $70 million in public funds, the Whitewater investigation came up dry.