graveyard shift
Example Sentences
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I always did the graveyard shift: I worked for 54 years.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
"We are ghosts on the night shift," says Leandro Cristovao from Angola, who has worked the graveyard shift at a south London market for seven years.
From Barron's • Dec. 19, 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
Faye works the graveyard shift at a hectic Florida hospital.
From Slate • Dec. 13, 2023
He chose the graveyard shift so he would have time to audition during the day.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
