junker
Example Sentences
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I took the long way out and walked slowly past the studio parking lot, out the front gate, and down the street, to where my junker was double-parked in front of the funeral parlor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
So when a crew of construction workers comes to tow the junker away, the outraged children run home to share their misfortune with their parents, only to be quickly rebuffed.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2023
An episode might follow someone who had long suffered driving an unreliable, junker of a car.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
I said, “Listen, if you have any old junker I could use, I swear I will come back here tomorrow and buy the most expensive bike you have.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2021
Every so often he’d bang the pipe loudly on another junker, as if he were trying to scare something out of the shadows.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
