How to Use scrap heap in a Sentence

scrap heap

noun
  • Now, the diminutive snub-nosed SUV is headed to the scrap heap.
    Mike Colias, wsj.com, 30 Apr. 2023
  • More like the scrap heap, as far as the Bruins were concerned.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • This time, Philly won three out of four – and Atlanta joined the Mets as a 101-win team on the scrap heap.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
  • If any of the four browsers throws an error, that sample URL goes on the scrap heap.
    PCMAG, 13 Sep. 2023
  • He was signed by Ned Colletti off the scrap heap in 2014.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • But Volt ultimately joined the Geo Metro on the scrap heap.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Apr. 2022
  • So is the diesel engine resigned to the scrap heap of history?
    Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2018
  • And their unlikely leader was Hicks, who had been plucked from the NFL scrap heap in 1979.
    Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The once-mighty tall ship, now sagging and possibly headed for the scrap heap, was closed to the public in 1994.
    Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The 31-year-old center was jobless this season until the Heat signed him off the free-agent scrap heap April 8.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The odds of finding someone from the scrap heap to lead your team have always been minimal.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 July 2021
  • At the damaged hospital, the medical dorms were a scrap heap.
    Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
  • So just what does the next chapter look like for a book store retailer on the publishing scrap heap not so long ago?
    Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Two years later, the Giants are contending with a roster full of guys Zaidi picked off the scrap heap.
    Nick Lozito, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Yet for a few years before those big numbers, he was essentially left for the NFL scrap heap.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Three thousand main battle tanks dwindled to 260; the backbone of the Luftwaffe, the Tornados, are destined for the scrap heap.
    Josef Joffe, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The pandemic is reducing the fourth wall to rubble and carrying the pieces, one by one, to the scrap heap of history.
    Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The Lab is upcycling by taking on the scrap heap of luxe fibers and fabrics and turning them into high-end one-off creations.
    Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The ability to run Windows is what saved the MacBook from the scrap heap of computing history.
    Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The idea that Asian Americans fared better played out in the 1980s, when Michigan's auto industry was heading to the scrap heap.
    CBS News, 1 Aug. 2021
  • The former president’s acumen for marketing and sales means the jet is likely not headed for the scrap heap.
    Doug Gollan, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Building a parts bin bike is like passing an electromagnet over a scrap heap.
    Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Cubs fans loved to hate, was signed in May off the scrap heap and provided some power (19 home runs in 85 games) and veteran leadership.
    Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2020
  • But within 10 or 15 years, recycling advocates say, the EVs being sold now will be headed for the scrap heap.
    Merrill Goozner, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
  • But a month after the Detroit Lions signed Peterson off the free agent scrap heap, the 35-year-old still is churning out yards and nowhere close to calling it a career.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Some tanks, however, are either poorly designed, poorly built, or should have headed to the scrap heap a long time ago.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2022
  • His company might claim around seven of them off the scrap heap and turn them into what might be described as a playground for golf shoppers and the Home Depot of golf.
    Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Trapping is not an archaic enterprise that is destined for the scrap heap.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022
  • With Means back to normal, Alex Cobb around for one more year, and a young group of pitchers ready to chip in, the Orioles may not have to go picking off the scrap heap to fill out their rotation any longer.
    Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The response has been NFL teams continuously searching for kickers in the scrap heaps of other teams.
    Tyler Kraft, Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2019

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