junkyard

Example Sentences

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“It just grew into this junkyard of stolen vehicles,” Oppenheimer says.

From Seattle Times

One team meet-up is staged, randomly, at an auto junkyard; it’s as though these serial sedan-killers want to lord it over the corpses.

From New York Times

While in Los Angeles working with the Gemini workshop, the couple found railings from an old French theater in a junkyard, which they sent back to New York.

From New York Times

“The people of failed Toledo can say to the people of the rest of the world, ‘Our junkyards are more splendid than your palaces.’”

From Seattle Times

This also helps in tech sustainability efforts by extending the useable life of smartphones and keeping them out of electronics junkyards.

From The Verge