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
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Unable to run into debt where he was known, he came over to Alexandria.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
Ever since Sweeten last year got turned out of the headship of his house, and afterwards expelled, it’s seemed to me to be a risky thing for a fellow to run into debt.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Reed, Talbot Baines
She will find that she cannot make the ends meet, and then run into debt.
From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel