grave digger
Example Sentences
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Nesbitt, who grew up near Rochester, N.Y., worked as a grave digger in high school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
A 1969 image of a basement being dug for a new home in Colorado Springs equates the large, rectangular hole with a grave, and the man standing in it with a grave digger.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2022
Festival entertainer Scott Murray of Crystal started out a peasant, became a grave digger and now is Garrik the Viking.
From Washington Times ● May 28, 2016
Lieutenant Fischer said it was the second time in three years that he had been called to a cemetery in Queens to rescue a grave digger from a hole.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2014
Baz Ellenbogen, who hadn’t made it through the first reader under Miss Myrt some years back, was the grave digger.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
