How to Use junkyard in a Sentence

junkyard

noun
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  • The car was hauled off to the junkyard.
  • Out the door, up the street, past the junkyard where the chickens and the old junkyard dog sits.
    — Mark Mordue, SPIN, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The canopy that kept the sun at bay was salvaged from a junkyard.
    — Jim Morrison, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • As children, Howard and Jaime would play in the junkyard or at the farm.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Then the kid’s life gets saved by a junkyard robot and the film takes off at a sprint.
    — Rebecca Angel, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2011
  • Jadis The junkyard gang (aka the Scavengers) is aligned with the Saviors.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 19 June 2017
  • There's a church that has seen better days and a junkyard.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The Prophet drove to the junkyard in Flintstone every afternoon for the rest of the week.
    — Jamie Quatro, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • Donald Trump has a track record too: that of a junkyard dog.
    — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2024
  • His old man boozed and ran a junkyard, and his old lady went to church.
    — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
  • His dog, Harper, was the first on the L.A. team to make a find: a 4-inch fragment of bone buried in the charred maze of a junkyard.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Boats that no one buys get demolished and sent to the junkyard.
    — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2017
  • And the episode ends with Betty and Alice finding Polly's body in the trunk of a car in the junkyard.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Boats and tools are made out of metal reclaimed from the war junkyard.
    — Tom Taylor, SI.com, 16 June 2017
  • The Yanks, meanwhile, have sputtered and backfired their way off to the junkyard.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
  • Image The police raid on a junkyard on the outskirts of Bangkok had all the trappings of a drug bust.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • There ought to be graphics of a junkyard of jalopies: Look, there's the ghost of Virginia right there.
    — Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • So, go to a junkyard and pull the horns off a 1976 Peterbilt tractor.
    — Ray Magliozzi, courant.com, 15 July 2019
  • Westover writes of a man who severed a finger in the junkyard.
    — Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Maybe the image that comes to mind is a slavering junkyard pit bull tethered to a chain.
    — Jane Stern, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Smith arrived, tuned the junkyard radio to Golden Oldies, and went off for a nap.
    — Larry Webster, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2023
  • When a car arrives at a junkyard at the end of its useful life, there are many parts on it that can be sold and reused.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The company Skelly had helped build would be stripped for parts like a car in a junkyard.
    — Russell Gold, WSJ, 22 June 2019
  • If the house is on tricky slope, or near a sink hole, or backs up to a junkyard or a prison, or has terrible schools, move on.
    — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The researchers took seven circuit boards from a junkyard and put them in an acid bath to leach out the metals.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 June 2020
  • Get it?) and then scrunched into a rippling, puffer-like shape, as if a muscle car had risen from the junkyard.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Katherine and her team of executives must work to adapt to the changing times or be sent to the junkyard.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 12 May 2022
  • Those events end the saga of the junkyard gang, as Jadis is left by her lonesome eating a can of applesauce.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The lighting and score work perfectly, and a fog lays on top of the junkyard to only heighten the tension.
    — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2017
  • His father was a fan of Sanford and Son which aired in the 70s, a comedy show about a father and his oldest son, both Black men, who owned a junkyard.
    — Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2024

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