Sentence examples for junkyard of from inspiring English sources

Its front yard was a junkyard of scrapped vehicles and broken artillery pieces.

A playground on West Thames Street became a towering junkyard of squashed cars.

Many competitors are unable to make it through the event, with the Sahara doubling as a junkyard of destroyed vehicles.

They sit atop a talus field, a steep-sloping junkyard of broken rock that also holds cliffs that are 1,000 feet or more above the valley floor.

Although it is less than 50 years since the space age began, a large junkyard of objects has already accumulated in orbit around earth.

The factory, the junkyard of its time, was located less than a mile away, down the gently sloping riverbank from the Carsons' four-room log cabin.

Today, low Earth orbit is something of a space junkyard: out-of-commission satellites, discarded bits of rocket stages, and fragments of spacecraft circle the planet like zombies roaming a shopping centre.

In the 1920's, F. Scott Fitzgerald looked out on a similar scene and, in "The Great Gatsby," called the junkyards of Queens "the valley of ashes".

Scrap metal gathered in the junkyards of Schnitzer and other recyclers across the United States provides the raw material for stainless steel consumer goods made in China, as well as for the iron and steel bars undergirding construction there.

A photo gallery of wrecks called Junkyards of North Georgia, www.autohobbydigest.com/salvage.html, showed up on a Yahoo search, as does a guide to buying and protecting classic cars, www.kennish.com /securecar, created by a security consultant, John W. Kennish.

Pieced together from architectural fragments (doors, window frames, siding) and objects scavenged from the sidewalks and junkyards of New York, it recreates the rich accumulations of improvised housing endemic to poverty-stricken, marginalized communities all over the world.