junkyard

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Recent Examples of junkyard The video features Drake in a celebratory mood, rocking all his famous jewelry while the same model van from the cover of Kendrick’s Good Kid, Mad City gets taken to a junkyard and demolished. — Rob Marriott, VIBE.com, 30 Dec. 2024 An Army veteran who worked at a junkyard and later as a hospital janitor, Yenner used to toss a football around the backyard with Moore and her brothers and take them on long day trips through the countryside. — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2024 The Prophet drove to the junkyard in Flintstone every afternoon for the rest of the week. — Jamie Quatro, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024 Well, many of those objects - or fragments of them - are still there, languishing above Earth in an ever-expanding space junkyard. — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for junkyard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
  1. landfill
  2. dustbin
  3. midden
  4. dump
  5. sanitary landfill
Noun
  • Meanwhile, in Europe, many sports organizations have long made zero waste the standard, diverting 100% of waste from landfill through a combination of reduction, recycling, composting, food recovery, energy-from-waste, and rainwater and groundwater recovery.
    — Claire Poole, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • To date, the site has produced 200 tons of biochar, diverting 800 tons of waste from landfill, said company founder Abdulaziz bin Redha.
    — Tom Page, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
Definition of landfill
Noun
  • According to the brand, the dustbin can hold up to 60 days’ worth of debris.
    — Clara McMahon, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Our reviewer loved the fact that this station doesn't just automatically empty the dustbin, but also washes and dries the mops, and refills the water tank.
    — Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of dustbin
Noun
  • The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Definition of midden
Noun
  • Just four years later, Howard found himself being traded away in a salary dump.
    — Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
  • New York City is gradually transforming its largest trash dump, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into a vast expanse of parkland and restored natural areas.
    — Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
Definition of dump
Noun
  • Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
    — By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2024
Definition of sanitary landfill

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