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
Nevertheless, they worked on in hope, but what was termed their “luck” became worse and worse every day, so that at last they were obliged to run into debt.
From Philosopher Jack by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
It isn't as if we had been extravagant and run into debt.
From Ethel Morton's Holidays by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
“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
