become indebted

According to Pujol, many young recruits become indebted to the gang leaders.

Orna feels complicit in her own victimization because she’s allowed herself to become indebted to Benny; to be afraid for her own career; to wear her hair long when Benny said she should let it down.

I guess when you spend a life riding waves—knowing that the ocean is heartless and millions of times stronger than you are, but still trusting that you're skilled enough or brave enough or charmed enough to survive it—you become indebted to the people who don't make it.

And one of the great things about my grandfather was that he sent my father north before he reached the age of maturity so that he, too, wouldn’t become indebted to the land.

Due to a series of events starting with an auto breakdown, they become indebted to a peasant family whose demands turn them into indentured servants.