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 a state of dependence, and with a fettered commerce, though with all the advantages of peace, her trade could not balance herself, and she annually run into debt.
From A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up by Paine, Thomas
Rather free in spending his money, he has never run into debt except on one occasion, which turned out badly for him.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.
Even at college his allowance had always been in excess of his needs, and so, though ever ready to help a friend in trouble, he had never run into debt on his own account.
From The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)
