How to Use junkyard in a Sentence

junkyard

noun

• The car was hauled off to the junkyard.
• Fires have broken out repeatedly at Ferrera’s illicit junkyard, where there are numerous containers of propane and other flammable liquids.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
• Out the door, up the street, past the junkyard where the chickens and the old junkyard dog sits.
  — Mark Mordue, SPIN, 1 Dec. 2023
• The canopy that kept the sun at bay was salvaged from a junkyard.
  — Jim Morrison, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• As children, Howard and Jaime would play in the junkyard or at the farm.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 31 Jan. 2024
• Then the kid’s life gets saved by a junkyard robot and the film takes off at a sprint.
  — Rebecca Angel, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2011
• Jadis The junkyard gang (aka the Scavengers) is aligned with the Saviors.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 19 June 2017
• There's a church that has seen better days and a junkyard.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
• Donald Trump has a track record too: that of a junkyard dog.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2024
• His old man boozed and ran a junkyard, and his old lady went to church.
  — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
• His dog, Harper, was the first on the L.A. team to make a find: a 4-inch fragment of bone buried in the charred maze of a junkyard.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Boats that no one buys get demolished and sent to the junkyard.
  — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2017
• And the episode ends with Betty and Alice finding Polly's body in the trunk of a car in the junkyard.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• Boats and tools are made out of metal reclaimed from the war junkyard.
  — Tom Taylor, SI.com, 16 June 2017
• The Yanks, meanwhile, have sputtered and backfired their way off to the junkyard.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
• Image The police raid on a junkyard on the outskirts of Bangkok had all the trappings of a drug bust.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2018
• There ought to be graphics of a junkyard of jalopies: Look, there's the ghost of Virginia right there.
  — Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• So, go to a junkyard and pull the horns off a 1976 Peterbilt tractor.
  — Ray Magliozzi, courant.com, 15 July 2019
• Westover writes of a man who severed a finger in the junkyard.
  — Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
• Maybe the image that comes to mind is a slavering junkyard pit bull tethered to a chain.
  — Jane Stern, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2017
• Smith arrived, tuned the junkyard radio to Golden Oldies, and went off for a nap.
  — Larry Webster, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2023
• When a car arrives at a junkyard at the end of its useful life, there are many parts on it that can be sold and reused.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
• The company Skelly had helped build would be stripped for parts like a car in a junkyard.
  — Russell Gold, WSJ, 22 June 2019
• If the house is on tricky slope, or near a sink hole, or backs up to a junkyard or a prison, or has terrible schools, move on.
  — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• The researchers took seven circuit boards from a junkyard and put them in an acid bath to leach out the metals.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 June 2020
• Get it?) and then scrunched into a rippling, puffer-like shape, as if a muscle car had risen from the junkyard.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Katherine and her team of executives must work to adapt to the changing times or be sent to the junkyard.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 12 May 2022
• Those events end the saga of the junkyard gang, as Jadis is left by her lonesome eating a can of applesauce.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• The lighting and score work perfectly, and a fog lays on top of the junkyard to only heighten the tension.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2017
• When most cars are taken to a junkyard today, they are crushed and shredded.
  — Levi Tillemann, Wired, 4 June 2020

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024