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
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 Parrott, James Edward
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
No man should run into debt for a luxury, and every prudent man will have money in his purse for life's necessities.
From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Calhoon, Major A.R.
