Sentence examples for collection of junk from inspiring English sources
All in all, the most splendid collection of junk and antiques ever.
Over the years, as Mr. Hinman worked away in a back room, friends crashed and roommates drifted in and out, leaving behind an ever-expanding collection of junk.
A diversified collection of junk bonds or risky bank loans are put together, and then securities backed by that collection are sold.
He returns around noon with a miscellaneous collection of junk that he has paid a great deal of money for, but the night table is not to be auctioned until afternoon.
Mr. Hackett moved into the neighborhood three or four years ago and slowly attracted the attention -- and eventual respect -- of the local teenagers, some of whom would hang out in his workshop ogling his odd inventions and collection of junk.
Upon entering, it seems nothing more than a collection of junk recovered from the beach, but a closer look reveals a surreal and often humorous story or proverb attached to each artefact ("Life is like the wind – it's not there when there isn't any," is a personal favourite).
He recycles authors too - Borges, Stanislaw Lem, HP Lovecraft, William Burroughs - along with a growing collection of detritus, junk, old doors and little piles of thrown-out objects.
("Only the Kennedys could hold a garage sale at Sotheby's," Alan Jellinek, a London art dealer, commented*, about the second auction. "It was just a collection of old junk.... She sold everything but her mother's bloomers").
They hired professional writers to create stories for a collection of $1.50-a-piece 1.50-a-piece 1.50-a-pieceld on eBay, where "the newly significant objunks sobjects as much as 2,700% of thatr value".
Burns also calls the robot that had Homer's brain a "clinking, clattering cacophany of calligenous cogs and camshafts", similar to the Wizard's line to the Tin Man: "You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of calligenous junk!" In Homer's nightmare, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is broadcast on a TV.
That would be us, collections of space junk, somehow perceiving and pondering the grandiosity that gave us birth in a sort of intellectual and emotional equivalent of the snake eating its tail.
