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
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)
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)
