dry hole

Finally, after years of dry holes, I had given them something to work with.

I just kept thinking my entire life was a big dry hole.

After 12 dry holes, Jones finally hit oil in 1867.

White House officials said that the personal allegations had hit "a dry hole."

On Young's land was drilled the first dry hole in the history of the field!

The chances were a thousand to one that it was a dry hole.

After drilling eight dry holes in 2002, the crew gave up.

Sounds to me like you're digging a dry hole, Doctor.

I don't know, but it probably had to do with the dry hole concept.

We had a little bit of a dry hole a couple of years ago.

"It was a dry hole," said a prosecutor familiar with the matter.

Production began to decline sharply in 1915, and more dry holes were reported.

Operates in every solar system known to man and never puts down a dry hole.

That's about the ratio - five dry holes to every one that produces.

Why else would those guys be doing business with someone who poked 30 dry holes?"

Unfortunately, it was a dry hole except for a very small quantity of gas and oil.

So this was, for the moment, a dry hole.

Stem cells may still prove to be a therapeutic dry hole.

However the drilling effort yielded a dry hole and was abandoned six months later.

All the wells drilled in state waters were dry holes.

Nevertheless, major finds in other parts of the world, were preceded by similar dry holes.

Finally, some fields it had banked on ended up being dry holes.

Companies are less likely to drill dry holes, and are able to get more oil from what they do find.

You have to be willing to drill dry holes.