Other Words from junker

Noun (2)

Junkerdom \ ˈyu̇ŋ-kər-dəm

\ noun

Junkerism \ ˈyu̇ŋ-kə-ˌri-zəm

\ noun

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

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun 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 Wall Street short sellers, many of whom have long believed Elon Musk's electric car maker Telsa is a junker, got run over on Thursday, losing about $1.5 billion in one day on their bearish bets after the company reported a rare quarterly profit. — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2019 Sommer fell for his first old car at age 9 when his father paid a neighbor $15 for a Ford Model T junker in about 1942. — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2019 Both men were spending the weekend in the back bed of their junker pickup trucks. — Jason Nark, Philly.com, 11 May 2018 Melin quit college and was working at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino buffet and driving a junker car to work. — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2018 See More

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