boneyard
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cemetery, God's acre, graveyard, memorial park, necropolis, potter's field
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Up until that moment, this historic piece of history was just lying in obscurity in a boneyard in Wisconsin. — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, "The Return of 'That’s All, Brother': The Plane That Led the D-Day Invasion," 4 June 2019 But while the jumbo jet's service days might be over, not every 747 is headed for the boneyard. — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, "Retired Boeing 747 Will Roll Across a Highway to Its Final Resting Place," 7 Feb. 2019 The story could've ended there, with the plane finding its final resting place at a boneyard in the middle of Ohio. — Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, "Super-Rare XP-82 Twin Mustang Flies Again After Decade-Long Restoration," 4 Jan. 2019 Delta 747s are cleaned and prepped for storage at Pinal Airpark, a boneyard for unwanted aircraft in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. — Robert Wall, WSJ, "The Last 747: Airlines Dump the Jumbo Jet, Transforming International Travel," 29 Dec. 2018 By the mid-60s, the plane that would become the Space Shuttle Cafe had been brought to a boneyard near Tucson. — Kaya Laterman, New York Times, "Monetizing the Space Shuttle Cafe," 28 June 2018 Decades-old Marine airplanes are being brought back from the boneyard. — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, "WTF-35: How the Joint Strike Fighter Got to Be Such a Mess," 27 July 2018 Financial woes forced Evergreen into bankruptcy and the supertanker seemed doomed to live out its existence in the boneyard. — Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, "What It Feels Like to Fly a Firefighting 747," 12 Aug. 2016 It was rescued when an Air Force historian discovered it in a Wisconsin aircraft boneyard. — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, "Surviving Doolittle Raider flies on restored D-Day plane," 6 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'boneyard.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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