undertaker

Example Sentences

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Oliver’s transit from the workhouse to an undertaker’s establishment to Fagin’s hide-out, spread across eight chapters in the Dickens, takes what seems like a blink of an eye here.

From New York Times

The women then took the remains back and they were sent to the undertaker.

From BBC

French died soon after construction started, so Mason took over the role of general contractor — then known as undertaker — while acting as executor of French’s estate.

From Washington Post

He said Allan's body had been so badly decomposed when the police returned it to the family that the undertaker phoned up in tears.

From BBC

When undertakers lifted her body from the bed he said the smell was "horrific, the most unpleasant smell I've ever encountered."

From BBC