JUNK in a Sentence

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For JUNK, below is one of 17 sentences:
Well, I'm Sam Clark, dealer in hardware, sporting goods, cream separators, and almost any kind of heavy junk you can think of.

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 Meanings and Examples of JUNK
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junk
 n.  a fragment of any solid substance; old iron, or other metal, glass, paper; discarded material
Classic Sentence:
1  It was, as he had thought, a junk room.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
2  remained at the window, he did not dare go back into the junk room, and he did not want to go home either.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
3  could not possibly have let the junior bank staff, and perhaps even all sorts of other people, come along and catch him by surprise as he haggled with those people in the junk room.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
4  At the door of the junk room he stopped and listened for a little while.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
5  On the way home, as he passed by the junk room again, he opened its door as if that had been his habit.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
6  Well, I'm Sam Clark, dealer in hardware, sporting goods, cream separators, and almost any kind of heavy junk you can think of.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Sam Clark interrupted, "Rats, they never even thought about making love, Just talking books and all that junk."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
Example Sentence:
1  The garage has got full of junk again.
2  You can't reach for anything new, if your hands are still full of yesterdays junk.
3  There's nothing but junk on the TV.
4  He's an expert at making things out of junk.
5  The truth is that junk bonds were misnamed, and therefore misunderstood.
6  These days, white flour is considered unhealthy - so it's perfect for junk foods like fruit pies.
7  Today's swim isn't so bad except that there was crazy wind on the beach, and these huge waves that brought all the junk on the sea floor up.
8  A prudent, thrifty, New Englander, DeWitt was as chary of investing money in junk bonds.
9  He decided he would wean himself away from eating junk food and stick to fruits and vegetables.