graveyard shift

Example Sentences

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I always did the graveyard shift: I worked for 54 years.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

The graveyard shift will become the domain of retail investors and specialized firms.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 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

I also hadn’t done my hearing any favors by working the graveyard shift at a nightclub during college—eight uninterrupted hours at a stretch of noise exposure that vastly exceeded safe levels.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2024

“Ah most always work from six t’ midnight, but I was coverin’ the graveyard shift.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green