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
For Code received his insurance without a dispute and, not long afterward, while in Boston for the purpose, had picked up the almost new Charming Lass from a Gloucester skipper who had run into debt.
From The Harbor of Doubt by Gage, George W.
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.
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.
