Sentence examples for demand dry up from inspiring English sources

It is those loans that are now devastating bank balance sheets, as developers who borrowed to build offices, stores and neighborhoods saw demand dry up and now cannot pay the banks back.

December capped a painful year for home builders, who watched demand dry up as buyers abandoned contracts or stayed on the sidelines with the expectation that prices would fall further.

As a result, after years of an expanding consumer market, during which easy credit and the end of hyperinflation allowed low-wage earners to buy refrigerators, washers, stereos and televisions for the first time, companies are seeing demand dry up amid a widespread fear of unemployment.

Is this a consumer product with legs, or will the demand dry up?" Jeff Gearhart, research director at The Ecology Center in Michigan, has a remarkably similar viewpoint.

"Without that sweetener in the marketplace, demand dries up," he said.

Prices skyrocketed to unsustainable levels, before crashing spectacularly as demand dried up.

If demand dries up, Northpoint can always put the final phase on hold.

Then demand dried up with the real estate recession in the early 1990's, and the market took years to recover.

From property-bubble peak to post-financial crisis trough, house prices in Arizona's biggest metropolis plunged by more than half, as demand dried up and foreclosures soared.

Rechler Equity, like virtually all other owners, was forced to bide its time as the downturn dragged on and tenant demand dried up.

After "the slowdown at the end of the year when demand dried up," Mr. Rand said, the new year brought a distinct change.