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
Before my illness I had got into extravagant ways and run into debt.
From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Reed, Talbot Baines
Unable to run into debt where he was known, he came over to Alexandria.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
By running into debt yourself, or by your allowing your wife to run into debt, you give another person power over your liberty.
From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel
