phrasal verb: run out (of)

Run out (of) means to have used up and have nothing left. In Spanish one might say ‘quedarse sin’ or ‘agotarse’.

e.g. We have run out of coffee. We had better go to the supermarket and buy some.

The car stopped because he had run out of petrol.

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