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US
/ˈdʒəŋˌkjɑɹd/
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[ UK /dʒˈʌŋkjɑːd/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈʌŋkjɑːd/ ]
NOUN
- a field where junk is collected and stored for resale
How To Use junkyard In A Sentence
- I probably could have gotten away with it for a while, but I got ratted on by some bootlicker at work who spotted me at this junkyard.
- Calis had literally rebuilt the old battlewagon from the ground up, using what he had in the junkyard and blueprints that he had acquired some time ago.
- Specifically, motor vehicles deployed within the region were susceptible to explosive attacks, and many army personnel had found themselves raiding junkyards to create makeshift armour in order to protect themselves.
- The problem: there is no junkyard for garbage like this, or at least there's no way to ever truly be rid of it.
- Whether it's an abandoned junkyard, the homestead of a strange couple, a society of dregs, even the Dunn property itself, each locale adds a new bit of depth to the story and tactility to the atmosphere.
- At first glance, the junkyard looks like some sort of post-apocalyptic settlement, a thriving outpost in a wasteland.
- These junkyards have to be removed as poisonous chemicals and substances flow into the river and the lake through these places.
- The likembe (similar to the mbira or kalimba) that gives the band its signature resonating, nuanced, jingling melody is hand crafted from items salvaged from a junkyard. Dustin Reid: Konono No 1's DIY Spirit Fills Prospect Park And Le Poisson Rouge (VIDEO, SLIDESHOW)
- Thus parts of the city - dumps, landfills and junkyards - are both unpeopled and unclaimed, yet perversely organic in the manner in which junk simply accumulates and grows.
- If you ask me, we need a lot more surprise knothole dioramas and little tiny wax-sealed letters in this-here junkyard world. Boing Boing