How to Use boneyard in a Sentence

boneyard

noun
  • Pinal Airpark is sometimes called a graveyard or boneyard for planes.
    — Dustin Chambers, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Decades-old Marine airplanes are being brought back from the boneyard.
    — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2018
  • 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
  • That process began in earnest this spring, with the oldest models selected for the boneyard.
    — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
  • 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
  • Truncated bodies are common in old boneyards, where new graves often cut into old ones.
    — Megan Gannon, Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Retired planes are sent to aircraft boneyards, also called aircraft graveyards.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Which one is worthy of a Jonathan Bailey clarinet solo, and which will be sent to the boneyard?
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 3 July 2025
  • 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
  • Two years of extreme drought have turned large stretches of northern Mexico into a boneyard.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Without these organisms, which provide the corals with food and bestow their stunning colors, the reef becomes a boneyard.
    — Susan Casey, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Enormous driftwood trees are scattered along the shore, producing a scene that’s often compared to an elephant boneyard.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The facility is used as an aircraft boneyard where the arid climate helps prevent aircraft corrosion.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jackson also talked with trailer park owners, whose properties now look like boneyards, about letting people stay on their lots temporarily.
    — USA TODAY, 8 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
  • Many fire engines are mothballed in city boneyards, and the department has lost nearly 50 more firefighters since the Palisades fire.
    — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The boneyard became the city’s answer to overcrowded cemeteries in the 18th century.
    — Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 18 Oct. 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 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
  • 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
  • It was rescued when an Air Force historian discovered it in a Wisconsin aircraft boneyard.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 6 June 2018

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