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 put No. 154 in the ground, a vast row of crosses behind him.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
A 1969 image of a basement being dug for a new home in Colorado Springs equates the large, rectangular hole with a grave, and the man standing in it with a grave digger.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2022
Festival entertainer Scott Murray of Crystal started out a peasant, became a grave digger and now is Garrik the Viking.
From Washington Times ● May 28, 2016
Sitti ordered Poppy to give money to the poor before she died and more money to the grave digger and the women who washed her body.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
