boneyard

Example Sentences

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But in spite of the ghouls and revenants and other morbid players from the sidewalk boneyard, Halloween is a holiday for the living.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2023

He is talking about Wrap Distribution in Oxfordshire - a 100,000 square foot destination for Da Vinci Codes, a true boneyard for best sellers.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023

Two years of extreme drought have turned large stretches of northern Mexico into a boneyard.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2021

When an airline no longer wants a plane, it is sent away to a boneyard, a storage facility where it sits outdoors on a paved lot, wingtip to wingtip with other unwanted planes.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2020

And at the perimeter of this boneyard lies one much larger skeleton: that of the moose he shot, and subsequently agonized over.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer