gravedigger
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Origin of gravedigger
Example Sentences
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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
“We stepped over him somehow,” Vladyslav Minchenko, 44, a volunteer gravedigger, said, shaking his head.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2022
Old Ben stopped the wagon next to the open hole near the iron fence, then climbed down and walked to where Nehemiah the gravedigger was waiting.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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