gravedigger
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The banter between Hamlet and the gravedigger allows for the kind of witty wordplay that is Izzard’s stand-up stock-in-trade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
At noon on Sunday, Amotz Bazar, the kibbutz gravedigger, pulled up the driveway to the cemetery in Nir Oz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
One person undoubtedly cheering on the troops is Abidin Durma, well-known as the gravedigger of Omdurman, a sister city to Khartoum over the River Nile that is part of the capital region.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
The targets of his search included a highway grass cutter, a gravedigger and a janitor, all of whose musical talents were at the time basically unknown.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
He was a rambler out of South Carolina and found his way to slave catching after a hardscrabble sequence: dockhand, collection agent, gravedigger.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
One relates the tale of her gravediggers, who carry the secret of her true burial place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
In a secluded area of La Esperanza cemetery in La Guaira, gravediggers buried more than 150 bodies still unidentified since the earthquakes, AFP journalists saw.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Deputy Mayor of Freetown Kweku Lisk told the BBC that his office had requested security from the police in order to tackle gravediggers.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
Their families were overcome with grief as gravediggers shoveled soil on top of their coffins.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
It's just the six of us and two gravediggers, who stand a few meters away under a cluster of trees, their hands resting on their shovels.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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