graveyard shift
Example Sentences
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"We are ghosts on the night shift," says Leandro Cristovao from Angola, who has worked the graveyard shift at a south London market for seven years.
From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025
Long-time evening anchor Wolf Blitzer was also asked to move to the mornings and, in a certain light, Acosta's potential bump to the graveyard shift can be seen as an accommodation of that.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025
He was working the graveyard shift at Harvey Aluminum in Torrance when the melody came to him.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2025
Faye works the graveyard shift at a hectic Florida hospital.
From Slate • Dec. 13, 2023
She grabs my arm outside the Skulls' barracks, where I was heading for a bit of rest before a graveyard shift on the wall.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
