boneyard

Example Sentences

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Nomadic has so far ferried around two dozen Spirit jets, taking them to airplane boneyards in the Arizona desert where they sit while their owners decide what to do with them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

And it has become an issue of space, officials have said; salvagers are simply running out of space to dump destroyed cars and other vehicles and must carve out new boneyards.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

Patrick Lecer’s other three boneyards were also “close to saturation”, he told me in July.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2020

As many as 16,000 planes have been grounded in the pandemic, hiding out in dry and rust-proof places that range from hangars and airport tarmacs to desert boneyards.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2020

On the northern boundaries of Alaska, and still more frequently on the Siberian coast, are found boneyards containing tusks of ivory in quantities so great as to suggest the burying-places of antiquity.

From The Smoky God, or, a voyage to the inner world by Emerson, Willis George