Sentence examples for virtually drying from inspiring English sources

Syria comes next, at around 26 per cent, by virtually drying up the Yarmouk, the Jordan's main tributary, with around 70 dams; and Jordan, third at 23 per cent, thanks to the King Abdullah Canal, its own dams, and huge water subsidies for water which mean that "half the farmers in Jordan flood their fields" because there is no incentive to drip-irrigate.

Bank loans have virtually dried up.

Sales of his books had virtually dried up.

State spending on culture has virtually dried up in Italy in recent years.

But in the last few months, new orders have virtually dried up, almost overnight.

Figures released last month show that credit from China's shadow banks has virtually dried up.

Indeed, new junk bond offerings have virtually dried up since the stock market's collapse.

It has virtually dried up all credit in pesos for the private sector.

But during the Israeli occupation of Gaza from 1967 to 1973, business virtually dried up.

The outlets available to a young writer that I benefited from in the 1980s have virtually dried up.

By the 1980s, during the summer months, the two great rivers virtually dried up before they reached the lake.