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 put No. 154 in the ground, a vast row of crosses behind him.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022
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
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
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
