run into

verb

1. also tr to collide with or cause to collide with

   her car ran into a tree

2. to encounter unexpectedly
3. also tr to be beset by or cause to be beset by

   the project ran into financial difficulties

4. to extend to; be of the order of

   debts running into thousands

Example Sentences

“I think it is good for German industry that Volkswagen is running into some problems because it will increase motivation,” he says.

From BBC

The president-elect has insisted cost won't be an issue, but experts have cautioned that his promises may run into enormous financial and logistics challenges.

From BBC

But if Kennedy takes steps like these, “we know for sure he will run into resistance from industry,” Willett said.

From Los Angeles Times

And his plans to fire agency employees en masse will run into federal protections and the slow process for dismissing government workers.

From Science Magazine

It’s as if the director herself has run into an existential choice: to show women in the fullness of their complications, frustrated and abandoned?

From Los Angeles Times

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