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 discrepancy is made even more acute by the fact that our lieutenant always dresses just short of shabbily, slouches about and drives a junker.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2020

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

We put Angela into the car, a junker that must have been getting into annual crashes since the 1970s.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin