In this way, many provincial families may have been bled dry of scions.

The poor can be bled dry because they have been made powerless!

Both countries are being bled dry by the poachers who supply the ivory trade.

But there was to be another, tomorrow, and a further one if necessary- until she was bled dry of answers.

He had bled dry into the water, and his staring face was white.

He lay on the stone as if his limbs had been bled dry.

How long do you think people are going to stand and let themselves be bled dry?

And the American oil patch has been bled nearly dry.

Now it is bled dry and all the young men want to fight.

As for the tendency to bleed dry, it didn't concern him too much.