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
The couple have a teenage son, a junker of a car and desperate hopes that Fitz’s degree will bring a rosier future.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2019
Automobile appraisers tell you what your beat-up old jalopy or junker may or may not be worth in the new series “Sticker Shock.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2018
“It was a half a junker, but it was fast as hell,” Doyle said.
From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2016
Every so often he’d bang the pipe loudly on another junker, as if he were trying to scare something out of the shadows.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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