How to Use junk in a Sentence

junk

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  • Yes, space is big, but there is so much junk out there.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2022
  • That’s five years for the object to be junk that’s in the way of working satellites.
    — Moriba Jah, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The president vowed in his State of the Union address to crack down on junk fees.
    — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • With its bonds rated junk, the city was unable to pay its bills.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Just ask that vintage Game Boy still jammed in the back of your junk drawer.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The build-up of space junk has officials across the world concerned.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Today’s great reads Need to get rid of your junk and your consumer guilt?
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The White House hopes taking on junk fees will help win over voters.
    — Deepa Shivaram, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
  • What if these piles of junk exert some power of their own?
    — Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Two: There’s a whole lot of other junk floating up there, too.
    — Ellen Knickmeyer, Chron, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The issue of e-waste is about much more than just cleaning out space in your junk drawers.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
  • But marketing games abound and junk fees can make the business world go round.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2023
  • Autophagy cleans out the junk so new healthy cells can be created.
    — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The idea enjoyed a resurgence with a series of books and films in the late 1990s even as it was dismissed as junk science.
    — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
  • The rest is likely brain-cell-destroying junk that others have sent me in texts and group chats.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Will Wix’s new AI site generator be used to further fill the web with junk?
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 17 July 2023
  • The piece of space junk is roughly cylindrical in shape and is about 4-inches tall and 1.6-inches wide.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Pieces of junk — jars, paper scraps, ticket stubs, a nail — are labeled and neatly displayed on the walls.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Our insurance covered the repairs in our home, but the neighbor’s home is now filled with wet junk, and the stench is awful.
    — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Two burned out trailers and a pile of junk extend around the perimeter, with what looks like a bunker of trash lying a few paces beyond.
    — Jonah Gercke, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Even the right system can become the kitchen junk drawer if it's not monitored.
    — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The use of junk fees stifles fair market competition, the bill says.
    — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • On the other hand, a lot of the political stuff is junk, disposable.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 26 May 2023
  • Tidy the junk drawer Place a recycle bin and trash bin nearby, and set up a towel or old sheet and a bowl of sudsy water.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The goal is to find a safe and effective way to pare down the ever-growing field of space junk orbiting our planet.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
  • Bank of America will pay $250M in fines and customer refunds over junk fees and fake accounts.
    — USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • More:Hidden junk fees from businesses can drive up costs.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The fact is that junk fees permeate the economic landscape.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • This would reduce the amount of space junk in orbit and decrease the risk of collisions, per Gizmodo’s George Dvorsky.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Then, on the very next day, squatters returned to the house and were spotted inspecting belongings that had been put in the yard for a junk hauler to remove.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023

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