WordNet
Usage examples of "run low".
Finns excelled at an old-fashioned, personalized, retail style of Russian-killing, but when they started to run low on Finns, they had to call in the Germans, who are more numerous and who have perfected a wholesale Russian-slaughtering operation.
My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low.
More obviously, if too many individuals sacrifice themselves the supply of believers could run low.
Her irregulars had run low on fuel 180 kilometers west of the Gap, and she'd brought them on foot in one forced march of thirty hours, after sending her ammunition supplies ahead with the last drops of gasoline.
If it looks weak, or if they're beginning to run low on food already, we'll put in an attack to probe their defenses.
Strider seemed to be getting anxious: they were nearly ten days out from Weathertop, and their stock of provisions was beginning to run low.
If we do run low, you're the one who's going to make sure we lay in more supplies from .
The eastern devils were ragged and hungry and starting to run low on the munitions that were their only means of coercing supplies from the local peasants.
What with trouble breaking out in all directions, the treasury of the USE was starting to look a little threadbare as the available credit began to run low.
When you run low on funds and Jenny's ready to rob some poor schlub at gunpoint, use the damn money instead.
Deep enough that the major current would run low, leaving the surface placid enough to skim quickly?