junkyard

Example Sentences

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“It just grew into this junkyard of stolen vehicles,” Oppenheimer says.

From Seattle Times

One team meet-up is staged, randomly, at an auto junkyard; it’s as though these serial sedan-killers want to lord it over the corpses.

From New York Times

Like an old car you find in a junkyard, the travel industry will probably undertake a careful restoration of its fees, bringing them into compliance with the law but angering its customers even more.

From Seattle Times

But local residents seemed satisfied that the land acquisition company behind the proposal — JK Land Holdings — would not be bringing in a junkyard, landfill or anything else causing more traffic or industrial pollution.

From Washington Post

A junkyard owner who bought the contaminated metal then exposed dozens of friends and family to the radiation after he brought them to see it glow blue in the dark.

From BBC