graveyard shift
Example Sentences
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I always did the graveyard shift: I worked for 54 years.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 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
She and her fiance work the graveyard shift at Amazon, but they went two weeks without pay after the fire displaced them, and have been jumping from motel to motel.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2024
The hours inch by, slower than a graveyard shift on the watchtowers.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
