What is "junked"

Usage examples of "junked".

The moon was almost down now and the familiar shapes of the junked cars and scrap had taken on odd shapes and shadows in the starlight.

The director had the band members playing in the open bay doors of junked transports, line-dancing on their wings, gear all set up under the old propellers of others, marching with guitars over their shoulders down the rows of out-of-commission helicopters and fighters.

They landed giggling on the street in front of him and immediately found places to lounge—one sitting cross-legged on the roof of the junked car, the other on its hood, legs dangling, heels kicking against the fender, which woke little clouds of rust.

Reduced to sleeping in a junked car when she could have been sharing the futon back in the apartment on Stanton Street.

So when the sky flooded with darkness and the ground under the junkyard began to tremble, making the junked cars shake and rattle, he actually knew a moment's relief.

He looked up at the raiding cars, junked heaps piled one upon the other, already losing their definition in the growing dark.

The row of junked cars on her left was really pretty thin - they were by no means packed in door to door as they would be in the week or so before the crusher came to turn them into rough blocks of twinkling metal.

To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all important and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits.

To the academic mind, authority is everything and facts are junked when they do not fit theory laid down by authority.

Ben had not expected this highway to be so cluttered with junked vehicles.

The only ones Ryan saw were taking up positions behind the crumbled struc­tures and the stacks of junked wags.

But that would have left the companions nowhere to go except deeper into the stacks of junked wags, where there were more dogs.

At the far end of the dump were the junked cars, Buicks and Fords and Chevies and you name it, and my God the parts people left on their machines when they were through with them.

The law said you could not maintain a public dumping ground, or have more than three junked cars in your yard unless you also had a junk yard permit, or have a chemical toilet - a fancy and not very accurate term for outhouse - unless it was approved by the Town Health Officer.

In one mental eye he saw himself crashing through only to fall onto a rusty pile of junked farm machinery, twitching away the last seconds of his life impaled on blunt harrow blades like a bug on a pin.