"What a piece of ___"

Usage examples of junk.

We correct the phrase, which should read thus: In the year 1512 they departed from Banda toward Malacca, and on the baxos or flats of Lucapinho Francis Serrano was wrecked with his junk, from whence he escaped unto the Isle of Amboina with nine or ten Portugals which were with him, and the Kings of Maluco sent for them.

The Bogue would be more strongly prepared for battle than the smattering of war junks near Hong Kong.

Across the harbor, the patrolling war junks were an ominous reminder that the war at the Bogue was not as Ear removed as it seemed.

It must be the booze, it must be the junk, it must be all the pornography.

That goes especially for Minnie and this Bosey who kept the junk shop.

Now here was this new girl not any older than Marva but her husband was what they called a career man, she probably believed in all that junk the old ladies believed in, so she could learn to play canasta and go to hell.

She and I then went hunting for a chicha, a water pipe, something she said Curtis wanted, and I helped her distinguish the good ones from the junk made for the tourist trade.

And a clochard upsets a candle or something and sets the straw and junk ablaze.

The four kids had managed to cart all the robotware and comp junk into the service elevator and were presumably down on the street now trying to convince some free-lance trasher there was nothing toxic or hazardous hidden away in any of the shells.

He identified an undecorated blue glass bottle, a clear vase blown on to a mould of a many-petalled rose, and an over-heated piece of cloudy glass that Tris had taken from the cullet, or junk glass, barrel.

While men dived for the far walls of the room, Professor Durand followed the devastating robot right through the heap of junk.

Stuart Frisch was her next examinee, another one of the crew members whose youthful energy and affinity for junk food seemed to eclipse any obvious need for sleep.

We had come quite close to the city when my attention was attracted toward a tall, black shaft that reared its head several hundred feet into the air from what appeared to be a tangled mass of junk or wreckage, now partially snow-covered.

He worked exclusively with the so-called junk DNA in rats, introducing a selective catalyst through the cell wall on a folic acid carrier to delete specific but unimportant nucleotides.

Knowing that Foy would be at the Chinese ship, he had hurried to the junk and had done his part there.