How to Use junk in a Sentence

junk

1 of 2 verb

• We decided to junk our old computer and buy a new one.
• And the ones that aren’t working, either fix or junk them.
  — oregonlive, 19 Oct. 2021
• Their crews have to clean them out and then junk them at a cost of about $2,000 for each vehicle.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
• The restaurant was ordered to stop selling and junk these food items as well.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
• Carrère would largely junk the idea of a smoothly omniscient, Capote-like voice.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• Try to change inconvenient ancient rules: seek to pack the court, end the filibuster, junk the Electoral College, and bring in two more states.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
• Pension costs have weighed on the city’s credit rating for years, which partly spurred Moody’s Investors Service to downgrade the city to junk in 2015.
  — Shruti Singh, Bloomberg.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• Bjorkgren will junk up the defense out of a timeout, or to start a quarter, or during a dead ball to catch the opponent off-balance.
  — J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2020
• State and local public health authorities will have to junk some plans and draft others.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 12 Jan. 2021
• Place a slim chest of drawers or a demilune table right outside the entrance to your room to offer a spot to put away books or small accessories that would otherwise junk up your nightstand.
  — Jenn Andrlik, House Beautiful, 20 Apr. 2023
• Democratic pollster John Zogby said that Trump’s refusal to junk his legal fight and concede is unforgivable.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 28 Nov. 2020
• But somebody cherry-picked a few passages from an 800-page training manual and now Ivey is more than willing to junk the state’s one educational success story to appease the anti-woke crusaders.
  — Kyle Whitmire | , al, 25 Apr. 2023
• Maritime regulators—either the IMO or national officials—might pick one kind of operating system and junk the others.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
• In a revisionist mode, we might be tempted to junk Weber’s notion of a political savior, while holding onto his account of institutions.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2020
• We decided to junk our old computer and buy a new one.
• And the ones that aren’t working, either fix or junk them.
  — oregonlive, 19 Oct. 2021
• Their crews have to clean them out and then junk them at a cost of about $2,000 for each vehicle.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
• The restaurant was ordered to stop selling and junk these food items as well.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
• Carrère would largely junk the idea of a smoothly omniscient, Capote-like voice.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• Try to change inconvenient ancient rules: seek to pack the court, end the filibuster, junk the Electoral College, and bring in two more states.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
• Pension costs have weighed on the city’s credit rating for years, which partly spurred Moody’s Investors Service to downgrade the city to junk in 2015.
  — Shruti Singh, Bloomberg.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• Bjorkgren will junk up the defense out of a timeout, or to start a quarter, or during a dead ball to catch the opponent off-balance.
  — J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2020
• State and local public health authorities will have to junk some plans and draft others.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 12 Jan. 2021
• Place a slim chest of drawers or a demilune table right outside the entrance to your room to offer a spot to put away books or small accessories that would otherwise junk up your nightstand.
  — Jenn Andrlik, House Beautiful, 20 Apr. 2023
• Democratic pollster John Zogby said that Trump’s refusal to junk his legal fight and concede is unforgivable.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 28 Nov. 2020
• But somebody cherry-picked a few passages from an 800-page training manual and now Ivey is more than willing to junk the state’s one educational success story to appease the anti-woke crusaders.
  — Kyle Whitmire | , al, 25 Apr. 2023
• Maritime regulators—either the IMO or national officials—might pick one kind of operating system and junk the others.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
• In a revisionist mode, we might be tempted to junk Weber’s notion of a political savior, while holding onto his account of institutions.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2020
• We decided to junk our old computer and buy a new one.
• And the ones that aren’t working, either fix or junk them.
  — oregonlive, 19 Oct. 2021

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junk

2 of 2 noun

• Yes, space is big, but there is so much junk out there.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2022
• That’s five years for the object to be junk that’s in the way of working satellites.
  — Moriba Jah, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
• The president vowed in his State of the Union address to crack down on junk fees.
  — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• With its bonds rated junk, the city was unable to pay its bills.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• Just ask that vintage Game Boy still jammed in the back of your junk drawer.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2023
• The build-up of space junk has officials across the world concerned.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2022
• Today’s great reads Need to get rid of your junk and your consumer guilt?
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• The White House hopes taking on junk fees will help win over voters.
  — Deepa Shivaram, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
• What if these piles of junk exert some power of their own?
  — Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Two: There’s a whole lot of other junk floating up there, too.
  — Ellen Knickmeyer, Chron, 18 Feb. 2023
• The issue of e-waste is about much more than just cleaning out space in your junk drawers.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
• But marketing games abound and junk fees can make the business world go round.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2023
• Autophagy cleans out the junk so new healthy cells can be created.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
• The idea enjoyed a resurgence with a series of books and films in the late 1990s even as it was dismissed as junk science.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• The rest is likely brain-cell-destroying junk that others have sent me in texts and group chats.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2024
• Will Wix’s new AI site generator be used to further fill the web with junk?
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 17 July 2023
• The piece of space junk is roughly cylindrical in shape and is about 4-inches tall and 1.6-inches wide.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2024
• Pieces of junk — jars, paper scraps, ticket stubs, a nail — are labeled and neatly displayed on the walls.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• Our insurance covered the repairs in our home, but the neighbor’s home is now filled with wet junk, and the stench is awful.
  — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• Two burned out trailers and a pile of junk extend around the perimeter, with what looks like a bunker of trash lying a few paces beyond.
  — Jonah Gercke, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
• Even the right system can become the kitchen junk drawer if it's not monitored.
  — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• The use of junk fees stifles fair market competition, the bill says.
  — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• On the other hand, a lot of the political stuff is junk, disposable.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 26 May 2023
• Tidy the junk drawer Place a recycle bin and trash bin nearby, and set up a towel or old sheet and a bowl of sudsy water.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 13 Nov. 2023
• The goal is to find a safe and effective way to pare down the ever-growing field of space junk orbiting our planet.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• Bank of America will pay $250M in fines and customer refunds over junk fees and fake accounts.
  — USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• More:Hidden junk fees from businesses can drive up costs.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
• The fact is that junk fees permeate the economic landscape.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• This would reduce the amount of space junk in orbit and decrease the risk of collisions, per Gizmodo’s George Dvorsky.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
• And the whole junk fee battle sounds good on paper but is legally complicated.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024