junkyard

noun

junk·​yard ˈjəŋk-ˌyärd How to pronounce junkyard (audio)
: a yard used to store sometimes resalable junk

Examples of junkyard in a Sentence

The car was hauled off to the junkyard.
Recent Examples on the Web The Centaur stage will then be sent to what is essentially a high-orbit space junkyard. Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024 Police and volunteers — including some of Joey’s school chums — searched every cellar, vacant tenement, alleyway, junkyard, and loft for nearly 80 blocks. Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2024 Car-loving junkyard owner Harry Warholak Sr. saved the two LaSalles, Biscayne and a handful of other classics when GM trucked them to his Warhoops junkyard in Sterling Heights to be destroyed. Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2024 Adapted from a series of stories by the author Bohumil Hrabal (on whose work Closely Watched Trains and other Menzel works are also based), Larks on a String depicts a group of men who are forced to work at a junkyard so as to be rehabilitated for their bourgeois ways. Emily Tamkin, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for junkyard 

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Word History

First Known Use

1869, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of junkyard was in 1869

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“Junkyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junkyard. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.

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