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
She will find that she cannot make the ends meet, and then run into debt.
From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel
She will not run into debt; and she's quite right; so we have to manage with what we've got in the convent.
From Sister Teresa by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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)
