go dry
Frequency: 6.914.3 per million words
often refers to mouth, throat, or a source
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Examples (10)
- My mouth went dry when it was my turn to speak.
- If you don't drink enough water, your throat will go dry.
- The riverbed goes dry every summer during the drought.
- After weeks without rain, the local well went completely dry.
- Her inspiration seemed to go dry after her first successful novel.
- As I stood on the edge of the cliff, my throat went dry with fear.
- The conversation went dry, and an awkward silence fell over the room.
- With the new regulations, their main source of funding might go dry.
- His well of ideas for the project had gone dry.
- I felt my mouth go dry as I waited for the verdict.