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The former junkyard is seen as ripe for future redevelopment, but an environmental clean-up is clearly a costly hurdle to be cleared.—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2026 The village capped several business types at zero, including day labor and temporary employment agencies, repossession lots and junkyards.—Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026 The musical moves the action from a junkyard to the fashion and dance-forward world of ballroom culture — the underground cultural movement born in New York that for decades has created a safe space for self-expression particularly among the Black and Latino LGBTQ+ community.—Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 29 Apr. 2026 More than two dozen dogs were rescued from a junkyard in Westmoreland County this week.—Erika Stanish, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for junkyard