: something (such as an automobile) of such age and condition as to be ready for scrapping
: a member of the Prussian landed aristocracy
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Examples of junker in a Sentence
Noun (1)
I can't believe he's still driving that old junker.
they finally traded in their old junker for a nice new car
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
The cast from Bram Stoker’s novel are transposed to space junkers, who come across the derelict spaceship Demeter.
—Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023
Forced back together with his estranged son, Max (Dakota Goyo), Charlie teams up with Bailey (Evangeline Lilly), the daughter of his former boxing coach, to build up a junker 'bot named Atom to re-enter the ring for a last shot at glory, while also building up their relationships.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2021
Cotler and Bell had done that exact thing in 2011: Their very first JITV RV was a Craigslist junker-turned-recording studio that Cotler parked in his Venice backyard.
—Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
An episode might follow someone who had long suffered driving an unreliable, junker of a car.
—New York Times, 11 July 2022
The pair work together to repair a junker training robot to get ring-ready, while simultaneously mending their relationship.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2022
Some of the cars are modified, many remain original and, unlike many hoards of this size, there’s not a junker in the bunch.
—Fox News, 31 Mar. 2020
Fans buy cheap junker cars and drive ’em to the game.
—Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 1 Jan. 2020
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Noun
It’s been on the airwaves for about 50 years — almost as long as California has had its pioneering Lemon Law protecting us from getting stuck with junkers.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
The cast from Bram Stoker’s novel are transposed to space junkers, who come across the derelict spaceship Demeter.
—Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023
Forced back together with his estranged son, Max (Dakota Goyo), Charlie teams up with Bailey (Evangeline Lilly), the daughter of his former boxing coach, to build up a junker 'bot named Atom to re-enter the ring for a last shot at glory, while also building up their relationships.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2021
Cotler and Bell had done that exact thing in 2011: Their very first JITV RV was a Craigslist junker-turned-recording studio that Cotler parked in his Venice backyard.
—Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
An episode might follow someone who had long suffered driving an unreliable, junker of a car.
—New York Times, 11 July 2022
The pair work together to repair a junker training robot to get ring-ready, while simultaneously mending their relationship.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2022
Some of the cars are modified, many remain original and, unlike many hoards of this size, there’s not a junker in the bunch.
—Fox News, 31 Mar. 2020
Fans buy cheap junker cars and drive ’em to the game.
—Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 1 Jan. 2020
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“Junker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junker. Accessed 8 Dec. 2023.
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