grave digger
Example Sentences
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Nesbitt, who grew up near Rochester, N.Y., worked as a grave digger in high school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
A grave digger in Boston took time off during the day to watch the hearings at a bar to get “an education.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2022
“I don’t know how I would have felt if I had to bury my mother under these conditions,” said John Blumer, a grave digger at the New Montefiore Cemetery on Long Island.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's career spanned from interviewing John Kennedy's grave digger, to exchanging letters with serial killer Son of Sam and documenting the dwindling hope for survivors in the wreckage of 9/11.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2017
I didn’t see another person for blocks, not even a grave digger or a physician.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
