graveyard shift
Example Sentences
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He drove to Arizona from his native California after determining that no other streamer had taken the graveyard shift on the Guthrie beat, and he plans on streaming the residence deep into the night.
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026
"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
“Ah most always work from six t’ midnight, but I was coverin’ the graveyard shift.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
