What is "junk heap"

Usage examples of "junk heap".

The things which had been sacred to men, and the things which had been precious, surrendered to the sight of all, to the pawing and the bargaining, trash to the indifferent eyes of strangers, the equality of a junk heap, typewriters and violins--the tools of dreams, old photographs and wedding rings--the tags of love, together with soiled trousers, coffee pots, ash trays, pornographic plaster figures.

It is undisputed that plaintiff and his work, as here represented by the steel sculpture Cyclone Seven, have been held up to public ridicule both locally and, given the wide ranging magic of the media, throughout the land, as witnessed in a cartoon published in the South Georgia Pilot crudely depicting a small dog pinioned under a junk heap comprising old bedsprings, chamber pots, and other household debris, and from the Arkansas Family Visitor an editorial denouncing plaintiff's country of origin as prominent in the Soviet bloc, thereby distinctly implying his mission among us to be one of atheistic subversion of our moral values as a Christian nation, whereas materials readily available elsewhere show plaintiff to have departed his birthplace at age three with his family who were in fact fleeing the then newly installed Communist regime.

I think that on the day when men understand the meaning of its fate in that factory's junk heap—.

It wasn't very big, three feet or so in height and maybe ten feet square and from a distance it looked like an artistic junk heap.

Saved from the fire and the junk heap, which was something, anyway.

A couple of the floors are unsafe, but mostly the place is one big junk heap.

He made a sweeping gesture around the room that looked like a junk heap.

The droids and Cole arrive at Telti, meet Brakiss, and find a massive droid junk heap.

Elsewhere they noted three smaller ships, apparently uncommissioned warcraft, five or six space-boats in various stages of repair, a clutter of hulks on a junk heap to the rear of the shops.