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
He was obliged to run into debt, and the interest of the money borrowed from his cousin was an additional burden.
From Shenac's Work at Home by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
No, dear; I can't afford it out of the house-keeping money, and it is one of my rules never to run into debt for anything.
From A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days by Brazil, Angela
“And”—aloud—“and I’ve run into debt, and I’ve—oh, I can’t tell you any more; I don’t want you to hate me!”
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Garvice, Charles
