1.   All too often, Reichheld said, companies get customers in the door and then try to pump them dry.

2.   Oil wells that are pumped dry will simply refill themselves as more methane and petroleum works its way upward to fill the emptied spaces in the rock.

3.   Once filled with fuel, the cans are to be heated and pumped dry of all moisture and injected with inert argon gas to keep the fuel stable.

4.   There are dozens of ways to milk this message and NABJ has certainly pumped it dry.

5.   With heavy rain and a high water table, those craters, pumped dry by investigators during the week, have filled up with water again.

6.   Between the Israelis and Jordanians, it is pumped nearly dry from its headwaters.

7.   Once bodies have been removed, wells will be pumped dry and cleaned with chemicals by a water sanitation team, Henriksen said.

8.   Those dikes guard the polders, below-sea-level areas pumped dry and turned into productive farmland.

9.   A coffer-dam is a watertight enclosure pumped dry to allow work below the waterline.