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n. (scrap heap English)
Usage examples of "scrap heaps".
The scrap heaps and rusted hulks of automobiles, the unpainted trailers, the castle-like spires of kudzu slipped past, less substantial than blurry images in old photographs.
Paul was willing to bet that the lathe group was ten per cent as wasteful as it had been in the days of human control and mountainous scrap heaps.
Among the scrap heaps gathered by the Hassitti there was certainly much.
Luxurious intellectual toys were his weakness, and the best of those toys were the failures of his competitors, which he bought cheap whenever he could, saving them from the scrap heaps of technological disgrace.
As they came out into the desolation of the scrap heaps, the last traces of fog had disappeared and a steady breeze came up the river, fresh and salty from the Nore.
Protruding through the opening was the muzzle of Lelands auto-rifle, fully loaded, and on the control board two more clips collected from the scrap heaps of nearby communities lay ready.
When Klom grew weary of staring out to sea, he retreated to one of the scrap heaps with his watercutter.
I've got twenty-three flyers in a battered assortment of fighters gathered from the scrap heaps of a dozen cultures, and yet any one of them is a match for any three of yours.