mortician

Example Sentences

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Lucy likens her job to being a mortician or life insurance broker.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

"We go from service to lifesaving to mortician, dealing with dead bodies and then doing crowd control," the 40-year-old says.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2025

The once unidentified man was in jail accused of being a thief, and he was accidentally mummified by a mortician experimenting with new embalming techniques.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2023

He is quick to sympathize with those adults who helped him, especially Mrs. McElroy and his beloved grandmother, a rural Alabama mortician.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023

The cheeks had fallen back to the ears and a solicitous mortician had put lipstick on the black mouth.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou