How to Use deep in debt in a Sentence

deep in debt

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  • In 1990, the Cincinnati Ballet was deep in debt and seemed to be on its way to more.
    Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2022
  • That’s because the owner is deep in debt on the property, and the lender is forcing a sale.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2021
  • His father, deep in debt, has been snuffed out by cancer.
    Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
  • But as other historians note, some of the Framers were deep in debt.
    Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Many of the creators who signed deals with Triller say they have been left deep in debt, and are facing eviction and skipping meals to make ends meet.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The value of medallions crashed, leaving drivers with no savings and deep in debt.
    Phil Penman, The New York Review of Books, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The state was deep in debt, its tax base was shrinking and its unemployment and tax rates were among the nation’s highest.
    New York Times, 9 May 2021
  • So they were dispersed less than a year after they had been installed, and Jongelinck died, deep in debt, just five summers later.
    Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • With big bills and no more big checks coming in, Manafort soon found himself deep in debt, including to a Russian oligarch.
    Ilya Marritz, ProPublica, 1 Mar. 2022
  • This often puts them deep in debt and decreases their ability to scale borrowing more.
    Zenger News, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • But instead of getting that executive position, Marcus is downsized and finds himself deep in debt.
    Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2021
  • Sheffield had also found witnesses willing to depict Burton as a prolific gambler who was deep in debt and who had never emotionally recovered from the death of his wife.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Foreign nationals were found to have been paid less than promised, charged recruiting fees that leave them deep in debt, and pressured to sign improper contracts and work long hours, according to interviews and government reports.
    Andrew W. Lehren, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2022

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