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
  • There's a church that has seen better days and a junkyard.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When most cars are taken to a junkyard today, they are crushed and shredded.
    — Levi Tillemann, Wired, 4 June 2020
  • The best way to practice is to get a cheap used car panel from a junkyard or a piece of steel if lugging a door home isn’t your cup of tea.
    — Anthony Alaniz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2019
  • What had been a block of cozy homes soon became a deserted junkyard.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • So, what exactly is causing the moon to rust like an old jalopy sitting in a junkyard?
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
  • A few months after Rocco's release there was a break-in at Frank's junkyard.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Put more simply: The space around Earth is becoming a junkyard.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Your body has an ingenious three-part strategy to keep you out of the junkyard.
    — Dan Levitt, Time, 21 Jan. 2023

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