scrap
Example Sentences
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Scrap dealers can then raise an alarm if they are offered copper that matches the description of stolen material.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
On a July day in 2021 that would become blazing hot, dozens of community volunteers gathered before sunrise at the Scrap Exchange, a reuse center for art materials in Durham, N.C.
From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2023
Scrap metal recyclers and junk dealers will have to document how they are buying catalytic converters and from whom, as a way to ensure they’re doing business only with owners and qualified sellers.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2022
Scrap collectors pick it up from restaurants, hospitals and individual homes and then take it to middlemen, who sell it on to stallholders.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2022
My eyes prickle as I pass Scrap his phone.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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