gravedigger
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Origin of gravedigger
Example Sentences
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Local gravedigger Toby Howat, 25, is working with Goldsworthy.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
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
“We used to do one or two funerals a month. Now, we’re short-handed,” said Mikhailo, a gravedigger who buries many of the dead that Antoniy prepares for burial.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2022
It was the first gravedigger, the man who had crossed swords so briefly with Falconer a few days before.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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