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
Bodies come straight from the hospital, which calls the grave digger to let him know he needs to prepare for burial.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025
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
By the time he was done tallying the accessories, including gloves for the grave digger, the total cost was astronomical.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
