How to Use boneyard in a Sentence

boneyard

noun

• Max's house was of course, just next door to the boneyard.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2017
• Max's house was, of course, just next door to the boneyard.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018
• The pink and green Watson's Flowers sign is among the crown jewels of the neon boneyard.
  — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
• By the mid-60s, the plane that would become the Space Shuttle Cafe had been brought to a boneyard near Tucson.
  — Kaya Laterman, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• The boneyard has enough F-16s to keep Boatright busy for the next decade, and maybe even fuel a robot war.
  — Wired, 19 Nov. 2019
• More than a dozen B-1 bombers decommissioned by the Air Force have been flown to a boneyard in Tucson.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
• That might have been the end of it—one more idea in the boneyard of promising but unfulfilled inventions.
  — Gregory Mone, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2013
• But while the jumbo jet's service days might be over, not every 747 is headed for the boneyard.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2019
• The story could've ended there, with the plane finding its final resting place at a boneyard in the middle of Ohio.
  — Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2019
• Decades-old Marine airplanes are being brought back from the boneyard.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2018
• Over the past decade a team from Ege University in Izmir has drilled 500 holes deep into Troad soil in a futile search for a large boneyard.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
• Pinal Airpark is sometimes called a graveyard or boneyard for planes.
  — Dustin Chambers, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• This week, 9to5 Google uncovered that the company plans to add its stand-alone Street View app to its infamous boneyard in the coming weeks.
  — WIRED, 5 Nov. 2022
• Two years of extreme drought have turned large stretches of northern Mexico into a boneyard.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2021
• While many of the pieces are no longer illuminated, such as dozens of signs resting in the Insta-friendly boneyard, the galleries do contain pieces that are lit.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
• Terri Nunn walking through a fighter jet boneyard with her own music video that’s already racked up over 17 million views ... before anyone has even seen the movie.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• The boneyard became the city’s answer to overcrowded cemeteries in the 18th century.
  — Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Truncated bodies are common in old boneyards, where new graves often cut into old ones.
  — Megan Gannon, Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020
• Pinal Airpark is one of only a handful of such aircraft boneyards located around the world, with the majority found in the American Southwest.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2017
• Pinal Airpark is one of only a handful of such aircraft boneyards located around the world, with the majority found in the American Southwest.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2017
• The moment the company stopped embracing speed, action and risk-taking, Bezos argued, was the day it was headed for the corporate boneyard.
  — James Bandler, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2019
• Friesenhahn Cave probably became a fossil boneyard because of the way animals used it over thousands of years.
  — Brendan Gibbons, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2017
• The after-hours, family-friendly event will feature a make-your-own-slime station, a whale boneyard, appearances by the aforementioned hagfish and more.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• The after-hours family-friendly event will feature a make-your-own-slime station, a whale boneyard and appearances by the aforementioned hagfish.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The facility is used as an aircraft boneyard where the arid climate helps prevent aircraft corrosion.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2017
• Financial woes forced Evergreen into bankruptcy and the supertanker seemed doomed to live out its existence in the boneyard.
  — Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2016
• The twist, of course, is that in Las Vegas, a cat can have her own coffee bar, a singing cowboy can command center stage, and a Hollywood film director can transform a neon sign boneyard into a fine-art exhibit.
  — Michael Hiller, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
• Up until that moment, this historic piece of history was just lying in obscurity in a boneyard in Wisconsin.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2019
• It was rescued when an Air Force historian discovered it in a Wisconsin aircraft boneyard.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 6 June 2018
• Lakes racers would go out and pluck sturdy, lightweight parts from surplus military aircraft relegated to boneyards.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 16 June 2017

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