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
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.
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)
She had run into debt, and then repudiated her debts.
From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony
