Examples of boneyard in a Sentence

a once-notorious gunslinger who now lies in the forlorn boneyard of an Old West ghost town

Recent Examples on the Web Over the past decade a team from Ege University in Izmir has drilled 500 holes deep into Troad soil in a futile search for a large boneyard. — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022 The pink and green Watson's Flowers sign is among the crown jewels of the neon boneyard. — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2022 Two years of extreme drought have turned large stretches of northern Mexico into a boneyard. — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2021 The other, 26-year-old G-CIVB, took the even shorter trip to an aircraft boneyard at Kemble in England’s Cotswold hills, though won’t immediately be broken up. — Siddharth Vikram Philip, Bloomberg.com, 8 Oct. 2020 Residents include the former Mir space station, numerous uncrewed supply spacecraft, and—almost—the first Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, which crashed into the Pacific a few thousand kilometers away from the aquatic boneyard. — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 12 May 2020 Residents include the former Mir space station, numerous uncrewed supply spacecraft, and—almost—the first Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, which crashed into the Pacific a few thousand kilometers away from the aquatic boneyard. — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 12 May 2020 These planes are stored temporarily, but Victorville also has the longest-term parking: an airplane boneyard, which is what industry people call the airplane equivalent of an automotive junkyard. — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2020 Truncated bodies are common in old boneyards, where new graves often cut into old ones. — Megan Gannon, Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020 See More

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