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

Bodies come straight from the hospital, which calls the grave digger to let him know he needs to prepare for burial.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025

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

“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

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