boneyard
Example Sentences
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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
Westbank found its plane at a boneyard in the southern California desert.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2021
Two years of extreme drought have turned large stretches of northern Mexico into a boneyard.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2021
Perhaps to Teruel, or perhaps to the boneyard in California’s Mojave desert, where they will be warmer and drier, and where they can wait to find out if they will be needed again.
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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.