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

Faye works the graveyard shift at a hectic Florida hospital.

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2023

Another stays until midnight, when a fourth man takes the graveyard shift, posting himself outside Lincoln’s bedroom or following the president through the White House when he cannot sleep.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly