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
I didn’t see another person for blocks, not even a grave digger or a physician.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
