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Example sentences for "junk"

Lexicographically close words:
jungly; junior; juniors; juniper; junipers; junket; junketing; junkman; junkmen; junks
  1. Looks like I'm gonna ride in the junk pile tonight," he said simply.

  2. Looks like they took the junk pile to get the big guy's closed car, hah?

  3. They peered around, and didn't seem to mind a bit when they got their kid gloves all soiled handlin' the old junk that was settin' around in every hole and corner.

  4. A voice from the junk replied, and the answer being evidently satisfactory we hitched on and prepared to change vessels.

  5. The men who work the junk we are going down to meet are not to be trusted; hence my disguise.

  6. The sea seemed to be turning black, and the deck of the junk to be slipping away from under me.

  7. I have a letter for your consideration that is of the utmost importance," he answered; "the junk arrived with it this morning.

  8. It is certain that she has agents everywhere, and that she's in league with half the junk pirates along the coast.

  9. As soon as you can spare me I'm going forrard to rouse out the rest of the gang, and get the junk on her course again.

  10. The junk was one of the largest I had ever seen, and, like most of her class, appeared to be all masts, sails, and stern.

  11. Amidships the crew of the junk were assembled, listening to the excited oratory of the little pock-marked devil against whom my companion had warned me.

  12. We were just beginning to grow anxious about you when the junk was sighted.

  13. However, don’t make up your mind that you are not going to get your teeth into that junk till I give up the hope of making a fire.

  14. Then he set the cask of salt junk on end, and with a heavy piece of rock hammered away until he forced the head in.

  15. I will see whether I can’t get some junk cooked for you, ready for a meal at sunset.

  16. But if ever one enters into the heart of things in the tropics, I'd say 'tis when that same delicious taste melts through and through and all over you, after chewing salt junk for a space.

  17. If you don't we can recommend a verdict of Materials Reclamation--the junk pile to you.

  18. It was Scott's testimony that saved Frank from the junk pile.

  19. The drifting of the junk across the stream might be expected to check the gunboat for at least ten minutes, during which they would be safe from gunfire.

  20. On the completion of his business, just before sunset, he started in a sampan manned by two men, expecting to overtake the junk before she anchored for the night.

  21. A junk was being hauled against the current by a hundred "trackers" on the bank.

  22. On his way up the river he had met the captain of a junk whom he occasionally employed, and in conversation with him learnt of a strange experience that had befallen him not far above Sui-Fu.

  23. Fortunately, I was at supper when all hands were called to shorten sail; and not thinking what I was about, I clapped a whole handful of biscuit and junk into my pocket before I sprang on deck.

  24. The Childers, moored in the stream below the junk anchorage, was in a position to make this a most effective blockade.

  25. The Chinese version seems to have been signed by the British agent without his having before him a textual English translation: by its provisions the Chinese authorities engaged to protect the junk traffic in colonial waters.

  26. Some mouldy biscuits and a piece of hard junk were brought to me long after the dinner hour, and when I was almost too sick with hunger to eat.

  27. Bill, to prove the excess of the heat, fried a slice of salt junk on a piece of tin, and, peppering it well, declared it was delicious.

  28. The mass of water that swayed the junk like a cork lifted the great ship high by the stern.

  29. The "chief" darted to the port rail, for the Sirdar's instant response to the helm seemed to clear her nose from the junk as if by magic.

  30. It all happened so quickly that whilst the hoarse signal was still vibrating through the ship, the junk swept past her quarter.

  31. The junk was burst asunder by the collision.

  32. The stock was inlaid with gold and ivory, and the piece had evidently been looted from some mandarin's junk surprised and sacked in a former foray.

  33. The junk vanished into the wilderness of noise and tumbling seas beyond, and the fine steamer of a few seconds ago, replete with magnificent energy, struggled like a wounded leviathan in the grasp of a vengeful foe.

  34. Peters went upon deck in about an hour, and did not return again until noon, when he brought Augustus a plentiful supply of junk beef and pudding.

  35. De-mounted 'em so the junk would be easier to handle.

  36. But in life--as we have elsewhere seen--this inclined plane is angularly filled up, and almost squared by the enormous superincumbent mass of the junk and sperm.

  37. Now here we got to load and fuel this ship and, for all I know, you've got half a ton of junk around somewhere that you're going to load onto it.

  38. So I take all this junk back to my room at Tripler and solder up the generator--then what?

  39. Course I believe in using poetry and humor and all that junk when it turns the trick, but with a high-class restricted development like the Glen we better stick to the more dignified approach, see how I mean?

  40. Judas Priest, I could write poetry myself if I had a whole year for it, and just wrote about that old-fashioned junk like Dante wrote about.

  41. But of his studies Babbitt could learn nothing save a mumbled, "Oh, gosh, these old stiffs of teachers just give you a lot of junk about literature and economics.

  42. But say, when I get out in the tall grass, there's nothing will take but a lot of cheesy old stories and slang and junk that if any of us were to indulge in it here, he'd get the gate so fast it would make his head swim.

  43. I don't see why they give us this old-fashioned junk by Milton and Shakespeare and Wordsworth and all these has-beens," he protested.

  44. I made a cupboard from a trunk, directed by his kindly charts; a cart-load of hand-painted junk to my poor home a charm imparts.

  45. Do these here loonies really think that they can make a trap of iron and brass and canvas things, and junk and other scrap, with which to leave the solid earth, and plow the atmosphere?

  46. I'm waiting here among the junk in mournful solitude, till some one breaks me into chunks to use for kindling wood.

  47. Sometimes we dig our engines and cables out of junk yards.

  48. There goes the second muffler in three months," Ralph shouted, pointing backward to a heap of junk on the trail.

  49. Then let's leave your precious hunk of junk out here and walk in.

  50. At the door of the junk room he stopped and listened for a little while.

  51. On the way home, as he passed by the junk room again, he opened its door as if that had been his habit.

  52. A footpath in the bottom of it encouraged him to follow it, and a couple of hundred yards farther along he emerged upon the level end of a street given over to secondhand stores, junk shops and a plumber's establishment.

  53. All kinds of scientific junk that he wanted typed.

  54. Put a man over there in the shade of that junk shop to watch out for him and nab him before he can give the alarm.

  55. With the Sally pitching and rolling drunkenly, the fifteen ton junk was got off the head and hoisted aboard, while every strand of rigging creaked and protested at the terrible strain.

  56. The junk he had brought down to the cabin was half raw, a nauseous mass.

  57. In the shed the model of a junk was placed.

  58. Not a single vessel is painted--from the huge sea-going junk to the narrow-prowed barge.

  59. The junk was designed to receive poems on the beauty of the iris and of the garden.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "junk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; alcohol; analgesic; anodyne; barb; blue; bounce; candy; cast; castaway; cheap; cheat; chuck; codeine; collateral; counterfeit; debris; depressant; derelict; dirt; discard; discharge; dispose; ditch; dogie; dope; dummy; dump; dust; effects; eject; exclude; expel; fake; forgery; foundling; fraud; galleon; garbage; gear; heroin; hoax; hop; horse; hypnotic; imitation; impostor; jetsam; jettison; junk; laudanum; liquor; litter; lumber; mock; morphine; muck; narcotic; nugatory; obtrude; offal; opiate; opium; orphan; oust; paraphernalia; paregoric; paste; pelf; phony; pinchbeck; raff; rainbow; refuse; reject; remove; retire; riffraff; rubbish; rubble; scrap; shabby; sham; shed; shit; shoddy; shoot; simulacrum; sleeper; slough; smack; soporific; stuff; sweeping; swill; swindle; tar; thing; tinsel; trash; trashy; trivial; truck; valueless; vessel; waif; waste; wastrel; worthless; yacht; yellow