junker

Example Sentences

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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

Automobile appraisers tell you what your beat-up old jalopy or junker may or may not be worth in the new series “Sticker Shock.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2018

Melin quit college and was working at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino buffet and driving a junker car to work.

From Washington Times • Apr. 8, 2018

His first car was a junker that he spent two years rebuilding before it would run.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2012

I had found an old junker while snooping around in the woods behind Bob Fenton’s gas station.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos