noun

• A place where scrap is collected before being recycled or discarded; a scrapyard.

  ‘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.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Billy helped Tinguely scavenge dumps and junkyards in the New Jersey Meadowlands for the motors and wheels and other detritus that would compose his giant kinetic heap.’
  • ‘Juvenile crime focused primarily on merchants or less organized forms of thievery in semipublic areas such as dumps, junkyards, and railroad yards.’
  • ‘In the junkyard, for the first time, Maya is independent and surrounded by friendly people of all races.’
  • ‘Here is the junkyard, not as a repository of useless and discreet things, but as the living space of the working artist.’
  • ‘They scoured junkyards for tube ends and pressure gauges and stripped old ovens bare for dials and piping.’
  • ‘And later on, you'll have plenty of junkyard parts to choose from too, since what's popular on the roads eventually becomes popular in junkyards.’
  • ‘And he was asked that question by a soldier, who said that he had to go through some junkyards looking for armor to put on his vehicle so that he would feel safe.’
  • ‘At one point we got lost and had to exit into an industrial wasteland of junkyards filled with old bathroom fixtures.’
  • ‘A second option is to try to find a set at a junkyard.’

  Synonyms

  dump, refuse dump, refuse heap, dumping ground, dustheap, slag heap