mortician

Example Sentences

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Lucy likens her job to being a mortician or life insurance broker.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

She trained as a forensic pathologist and worked as a mortician in Mexico City.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024

The once unidentified man was in jail accused of being a thief, and he was accidentally mummified by a mortician experimenting with new embalming techniques.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2023

He is quick to sympathize with those adults who helped him, especially Mrs. McElroy and his beloved grandmother, a rural Alabama mortician.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023

Charlie Ledley was even worse: He had the pallor of a mortician and the manner of a man bent on putting off, for as long as possible, definite action.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis