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 grave digger in Boston took time off during the day to watch the hearings at a bar to get “an education.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2022
“I don’t know how I would have felt if I had to bury my mother under these conditions,” said John Blumer, a grave digger at the New Montefiore Cemetery on Long Island.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's career spanned from interviewing John Kennedy's grave digger, to exchanging letters with serial killer Son of Sam and documenting the dwindling hope for survivors in the wreckage of 9/11.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2017
Sitti ordered Poppy to give money to the poor before she died and more money to the grave digger and the women who washed her body.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
