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How to use gravediggers in a sentence

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Finally, the gravediggers had to dig down 13 feet through the snow and into ground hardened by six weeks of frost.
Before sunrise, they were joined by their other children at the cemetery as gravediggers worked by spotlight to raise the small coffin.
In fact, for many people, they couldn't even afford the fees of the gravediggers and their loved ones were buried with other coffins in a pile.
When Hamlet banters with the gravediggers, he becomes a clown himself, even if the subject matter is mortality.
Hamlet asks the gravediggers who is to be buried, but he receives riddles instead of answers.
His early, all-male Hamlet, complete with semi-naked gravediggers, had the newspapers, both tabloid and broadsheet, fulminating at his audacity.
The mix-up occurred at the burial of a Middlesbrough woman whose interment had to be delayed for three hours while gravediggers set to work.
He eventually found her, lying dead, so slept next to her, only for them both to be collected by the gravediggers.
The procedure took place at night, and, in order that the gravediggers could see what they were doing, a large fire was lit in the graveyard.
It also meant hospitals reduced to emergency cover by striking medical aides, and the dead left unburied by striking municipal gravediggers.
It spent months talking to everyone from gravediggers to doctors, deliberately avoided counting military deaths, and came up with 37,000 civilian killed.
Overlooking Najaf's sprawling tombs, gravediggers talk of the brisk business they are doing burying militiamen.
It is believed that shortly afterwards gravediggers stole his body, which ended up on a dissecting table in Cambridge, where a horrified acquaintance recognised it.
The unworthy priests are the gravediggers of the Church, as experience teaches us.
He said they employed two gardening staff and five gravediggers to carry out maintenance of the cemeteries including grass cutting, grave maintenance and burial ceremonies.
Marx and Engels noted in the Communist Manifesto that capitalism produces its own gravediggers in the proletariat.
Enjoy Halloween with goblins, gravediggers, demons, zombies, mummies, spiders and rats.
What they lack to take the struggle to the end is consciousness of their own strength and historic responsibility to be the gravediggers of the capitalist order.
He feared that his first-person voices of horsemen, pig-farmers, blacksmiths, headmistresses and gravediggers – some taped, some remembered and recounted – was not what his publishers wanted.
His decency and belief in socialist solidarity were deeply offended by the aggressive picketing of the strikers and, most of all, by the refusal of gravediggers to bury the dead.
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One is reminded of the saying of Marx that capitalism produces its own gravediggers.
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