boneyard

Example Sentences

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He is talking about Wrap Distribution in Oxfordshire - a 100,000 square foot destination for Da Vinci Codes, a true boneyard for best sellers.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023

Westbank found its plane at a boneyard in the southern California desert.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2021

When an airline no longer wants a plane, it is sent away to a boneyard, a storage facility where it sits outdoors on a paved lot, wingtip to wingtip with other unwanted planes.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2020

As it happens, the stock market boneyard, or at least its ICU, is littered with such stocks.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2020

And at the perimeter of this boneyard lies one much larger skeleton: that of the moose he shot, and subsequently agonized over.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer