run into debt
Example Sentences
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Traditionally, employees at auction houses court collectors for years, waiting for them to divorce, run into debt, or die—the so-called “three ‘D’s.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016
Last summer we planned to run into debt for $3,300,000,000 of emergency expenditures.
From Time Magazine Archive
If they spend more than they earn, they will run into debt.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
She'd been stupid enough to run into debt.
From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
In order to make up the balance, we must either draw on our national savings or run into debt.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by James Edward Parrott
