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

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

The image showed one vehicle Frankensteined together from the parts of three: The front was a sports car, the center a boring family sedan and the back a rusted junker missing its wheels.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2018

“It was a half a junker, but it was fast as hell,” Doyle said.

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2016

We put Angela into the car, a junker that must have been getting into annual crashes since the 1970s.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin