scrap heap
Example Sentences
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Among the items destined for the scrap heap is the gantry, which once sheltered Soyuz rockets from the tropical weather.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
Police are warning that more illegal and modified e-bikes will be seized in the coming months and say they will end up on the scrap heap.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2025
This is another that belongs on the scrap heap.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2025
This scrap heap of hulking male humanity landed perhaps seven feet away from me, and I wasn't in danger of being plowed over myself, as sideline photographers sometimes are.
From Salon • Oct. 1, 2023
Bat Lady sat on a couch that looked as though it had been ready for the scrap heap during the Eisenhower administra-tion.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
