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
The image showed one vehicle Frankensteined together from the parts of three: The front was a sports car, the center a boring family sedan and the back a rusted junker missing its wheels.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2018
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
