How to Use junk in a Sentence

junk

1 of 2 noun

• Make sure to check your spam and junk folders for that email.
  — Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 13 Sep. 2025
• But could there be a nice, Christian way to deal junk?
  — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
• Either way, the junk folder just got a brain.
  — The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
• Moody’s has it on review for downgrade to junk.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
• That’s a lot of new junk if the trend continues.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
• Mostly junk and a couple of bills.
  — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
• With its bonds rated junk, the city was unable to pay its bills.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• For one, pay attention to junk fees.
  — Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 7 May 2026
• Having junk hauled away costs money.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
• Having junk hauled away costs money.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026
• But for now the only way to earn was with the junk shop and Luz’s dump truck.
  — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• Autophagy cleans out the junk so new healthy cells can be created.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
• Friends clean out junk drawers and drop off the unwanted items on her porch.
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
• Who better to tell the tale of the city than the man who has spent years rifling through its junk?
  — Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
• The build-up of space junk has officials across the world concerned.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2022
• But marketing games abound and junk fees can make the business world go round.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2023
• Then delete the message from your inbox or junk folder.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
• Today’s great reads Need to get rid of your junk and your consumer guilt?
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Still, many people treat their junk drawer as a pre-garbage can limbo.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
• The basement is like a giant junk drawer.
  — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2025
• There’s so much junk in Eggleston’s pictures.
  — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
• However, with so many pieces of space junk to remove, time is of the essence.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• That’s five years for the object to be junk that’s in the way of working satellites.
  — Moriba Jah, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
• In general, though, there are still some junk drawer dos and don'ts.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
• The issue of e-waste is about much more than just cleaning out space in your junk drawers.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
• There are worlds built from papier-mâché, clay, thrifted leather, and junk.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
• Most of the fires have involved junk cars, sending flames and thick black smoke high into the air.
  — Abby Dodge, CBS News, 26 May 2026
• Prices climb, yields drop, and the only deals left are in junk that nobody wants for good reason.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
• The White House hopes taking on junk fees will help win over voters.
  — Deepa Shivaram, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
• If a link is clearly incorrect or junk, chances of removal are good.
  — Ross Kernez, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025

junk

2 of 2 verb

• We decided to junk our old computer and buy a new one.
• So Squeri junked the scoreboard.
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 11 May 2026
• The restaurant was ordered to stop selling and junk these food items as well.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
• Prints were often stripped of their silver content and junked.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• The cost to repair it was onerous, and Hilton had no option but to junk it.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2022
• The traditional yellow truck looks junked and burned with red paint and scorch marks on the body.
  — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 June 2024
• Putting the cost aside, the sheer waste of this many PCs being junked is staggering.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
• Their crews have to clean them out and then junk them at a cost of about $2,000 for each vehicle.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
• Squeri totally junked the practice.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 May 2026
• State and local public health authorities will have to junk some plans and draft others.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 12 Jan. 2021
• Carrère would largely junk the idea of a smoothly omniscient, Capote-like voice.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• And then the Republicans junked that plan and passed a map that was tilted wildly in their favor.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 23 Aug. 2023
• Streaming’s surge is powered by younger consumers who have junked the TV habit or never picked it up in the first place.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 June 2025
• Note that this result doesn’t necessarily mean that the fraud detection should be junked.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• At that juncture, yes, AGI as a north star would undoubtedly get junked.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
• EVs are so new to the market that few have been junked—and even those are often snapped up for uses such as off-grid power storage.
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
• Why exactly has Harris junked her socialist policies from four years ago?
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Sep. 2024
• Bjorkgren will junk up the defense out of a timeout, or to start a quarter, or during a dead ball to catch the opponent off-balance.
  — J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2020
• The City of Detroit is handling litter pick up, junking and sweeping within the city.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2024
• Republicans and some Democrats wanted to junk the requirement.
  — Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 1 June 2025
• Instead, CEOs and deans are letting right-wing activists bully them into junking the whole project.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 15 Dec. 2024
• Equity grading, which curtails teacher discretion, should be junked.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Place a slim chest of drawers or a demilune table right outside the entrance to your room to offer a spot to put away books or small accessories that would otherwise junk up your nightstand.
  — Jenn Andrlik, House Beautiful, 20 Apr. 2023
• In two consecutive postseasons, Denver has been vexed by an opponent’s ability to junk it up and unable to return the favor.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2025
• Image This was certainly not the first museum to junk the hushed autonomy of the white cube for the allures of tourism, commerce, events and multimedia.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 May 2025
• The local hockey team made every move this season to win a Stanley Cup, from junking its goalies to shipping out a star to overhauling the entire middle of the ice.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2025
• Some council members felt the city would undermine that commitment by junking the contract’s diversity requirement.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2024
• Democratic pollster John Zogby said that Trump’s refusal to junk his legal fight and concede is unforgivable.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 28 Nov. 2020
• Her characters are often antique pickers, interior designers, real estate agents, location scouts, house flippers and those who go on junking trips.
  — Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
• Pension costs have weighed on the city’s credit rating for years, which partly spurred Moody’s Investors Service to downgrade the city to junk in 2015.
  — Shruti Singh, Bloomberg.com, 21 Oct. 2020