junkyard

noun

Definition of junkyardnext
as in landfill

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Recent Examples of junkyard One week after a massive fire tore through an Opa-locka junkyard, Cairo Lane has reopened. — Chelsea Jones, CBS News, 2 June 2026 About 125 people in apartments east of the junkyard were evacuated. — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 26 May 2026 More than 80 units were called in to battle a six-alarm fire at an Opa-locka junkyard Monday night, and firefighters continued putting out hot spots Tuesday morning, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 26 May 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for junkyard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junkyard
  1. landfill
  2. dustbin
  3. midden
  4. dump
  5. sanitary landfill
Noun
  • Residents of Val Verde, a tiny town north of Los Angeles, claim Downtown LA Law Group used a cowboy recruiter to find plaintiffs for a lawsuit about a local landfill.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
  • Once derided as 'Garbage Island’ because of its overflowing landfills, Taiwan has reinvented itself into a global model for green tourism.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
Definition of landfill
Noun
  • When selecting a car vacuum, Koukia suggests considering battery life, weight, suction power, dustbin size, and attachments.
    — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • Plus, its dock automatically empties the dustbin, washes and dries the mop pads, and can go up to 65 days between dustbin changes.
    — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 23 June 2026
Definition of dustbin
Noun
  • The Granada cemetery and midden, a discard mound, extended to some 25 acres originally.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • But this is the first time archaeologists have actually unearthed a midden with evidence that people added to it regularly for so many generations.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
Definition of midden
Noun
  • The decision to shift away from the twice-a-year viewership data dumps comes following Bloomberg’s recent reporting that Netflix’s original series see a major decline in viewership in their second seasons.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 16 July 2026
  • The couple first sparked romance rumors in July 2023 when Gomez posted a photo of her arms around Paris Hilton and Blanco in a 31st birthday party photo dump.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 15 July 2026
Definition of dump
Noun
  • Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
    — By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2024
Definition of sanitary landfill

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