Sentences with phrase «junk heap»
The phrase "junk heap" refers to a place or area where a lot of useless or discarded things are piled up haphazardly. It often describes a messy or disorganized space filled with old, broken, or unwanted items. Full definition
Then came the terrible last ten minutes when it casts itself on the rancid junk heap of hokum.
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[quote petrolheadinrussia] wasnt the Dodge Dart one of the worst junk heaps churned out over the last 15 years?
If my memory serves me - wasnt the Dodge Dart one of the worst junk heaps churned out over the last 15 years?
Armando found the legs to an old picnic table in someone's street side junk heap and was inspired to make us a table of our own.
Perhaps the most valuable scraps in the transposable element junk heap are bits of DNA called transcription factor binding sites.
Photos from cities in China, where rogue systems are already in place, show junk heaps of broken bikes.
The Land in North Wales and the Anarchy Zone in Ithaca, NY, are two examples of highly successful adventure playgrounds where children have free rein of fascinating play spaces that look more like junk heaps than playgrounds.
On the other hand, although he shares with contemporary epistemologists the view that all observation is «theory - laden,» he does not thereby conclude that induction should simply be discarded to the junk heap of worn out ideas.
Psychoanalysis belonged «on the junk heap of speculative philosophy,» he wrote.
If this were the only site we were using to hook up with girls, we'd have been furious about the waste of money we poured into this junk heap of a website.
The completely implausible story, the variety of situations McClane finds himself in and some genuinely funny dialog help elevate it out of the junk heap.
Governed by the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum, «Independence Day: Resurgence») and inhabited by all manner of reprobates and degenerates, Sakaar is the junk heap of the cosmos where inhabitants are either enslaved or enthralled to gladiatorial contests between the most powerful arrivals.
Bening embraces the quiet desperation of a star whose time has cruelly passed her by, abandoning her to the junk heap of has - beens.
When young, nerdy Reed Richards (Owen Judge) and young, scruffy Ben Grimm (Evan Hannemann) are tooling around in Reed's garage back in 2007, making a teleportation device out of scraps from Ben's family's junk heap, there's a youthful sense of wonder and possibility that's intriguing — not unlike the one that infused director Josh Trank's high - school sci - fi flick «Chronicle.»
Luckily I had just gotten a sizeable bonus so I paid of the financing and sold the junk heap for scrap.
There's also the occasional vendor to be found moping around whichever area you're in, and they usually also sell all of the junk you can find in the junk heaps strewn around, which is sort of daft when you really thing about it.
Mines, bombing ranges, and junk heaps are source material for her landscape paintings and representational drawings that explore the line between land and landscape, beauty and banality.
Instead of forward - looking contemporary art, what is on offer at some of Gotham's bigger showrooms looks more like lemons rummaged from the junk heap of art's DeLoreans.
At one side of this pile of rubbish was a small opening; crouching and mystified, one entered a long tunnel lined with white faux fur, beginning a claustrophobic journey through the innards of the junk heap.
[xxi] The Chicago Daily News reviewed the show calling the work «examples of an uninhibited, courageous, audacious, searching talent -LSB-...] His materials for his sculptures could be found in any junk heap, yet his use of them results in a miraculous transformation.»
An avid collector of trash and other interesting urban debris, his studio rapidly became a junk heap, containing items as varied as Coca Cola bottles, newspapers, magazines, clocks, radios, wire, metalwork, photographs, taxidermied animals and fragments of clothing, most of which would eventually be integrated into his work.
«I was sort of terrified that one day she might end up being scrapped, and wind up in some junk heap, which would be even more depressing, I suppose.
The throwaway economy that has evolved over the last half - century is an aberration that is now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half - century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
«We didn't want Swapdom to become a junk heap,» said Georgopoulos.
My grandfather found them for me in a junk heap at the farm.