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Gravedigger


Definition:

  • (n.) A digger of graves.
  • (n.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Exiting the cemetery at the south gate (not the main gate) you enter Prospect Square and can finish the walk with a pint in John Kavanagh’s pub , known locally as the Gravediggers.
  • (2) The local gravedigger says he has already buried 1,000, and more bodies are found every day.
  • (3) She inveighs against the "gravediggers" of Brussels, whose austerity measures are held responsible for the scourge of mass unemployment and economic stagnation.
  • (4) He too had to put up with large swaths of the French left labelling him the Socialists’ gravedigger, because of his neoliberal reforms.
  • (5) Ebola: toilet cleaners, gravediggers and survivors tell their story – in pictures Read more It says DfID was too slow to respond to warnings from MSF and others because of its overreliance on the existing international public health system and its expectation that the WHO would act quickly.
  • (6) The hope had been if you take plasma from the recovered patient and transfuse a new patient with that plasma there would be significant effect, and this study shows there was not.” Ebola: toilet cleaners, gravediggers and survivors tell their story – in pictures Read more The trial group’s mortality rate was compared with that of more than 400 patients treated in the same centre in the five months previously.
  • (7) "Four in the past week, all young ones," says Ignacio Montes, 66, the gravedigger.
  • (8) The macabre minutes of the secretive "central contingencies unit" show that in the face of a strike by local authority gravediggers and crematorium staff, Whitehall officials considered bringing in private contractors to do the job but feared this could lead to "unseemly scenes at cemetery gates" involving union pickets.
  • (9) Peter Boudgoust, the director of the SWR, has been called a "cultural gravedigger" by the general secretary of the German music council, Christian Höppner, for what he called the "cultural political catastrophe".
  • (10) The files show that only 80 gravediggers were on strike in Liverpool and Tameside, Greater Manchester, in January 1979 as part of public sector strikes that contributed to the last days of James Callaghan's government, although the particular dispute later spread to other towns including Brighton and Hyndburn.
  • (11) She says everyone waits for the hour when the gravedigger arrives and there are new bodies to identify.
  • (12) The proceedings opened with our theme song, a light, melancholic melody played on accordion by its composer, No 7, a gravedigger from the Umbrian town of Gubbio, where Saint Francis tamed the wolves.

Sexton


Definition:

  • (n.) An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The gap would have been closer had Sexton not missed those consecutive kicks but the fly-half was back on track in the 61st minute and Ireland had passed their Welsh target with O’Brien about to reach out for his second try that the replacement fly-half Ian Madigan converted.
  • (2) Richard Sexton, director of business development at surveyor e.surv , said the CML figures masked the true picture of what was happening to the housing market nationwide: "It is bad news that overall house purchase lending was so weak in July, but the good news is that it has not turned out to be a UK-wide phenomenon.
  • (3) Sexton converted for 17-3 after 25 minutes, which could have been worse had Hogg not performed his second try-saving act before being at the heart of the Scottish try.
  • (4) He explains in detail how opportunities came about in his early days at Fulham and Chelsea, name-checks everyone who has influenced his coaching career, from Dave Sexton through to Carlo Ancelotti, the Real Madrid manager who is sitting alongside him at the Spanish club's training ground, and stresses over and again the importance of learning.
  • (5) Richard Sexton, a director at e.surv, said: “This is a trend which started at the end of last year and has continued into 2017.
  • (6) Sam Sexton Kenilworth, Warwickshire • George Monbiot ( Comment , 9 September) paints a sunny picture of a nation united in the struggle to free itself from foreign domination, ready to emerge on to the level playing fields of independence.
  • (7) Richard Sexton, director of e.surv, said the first-time buyer market was "alive and kicking again" and confidence was returning to the housing market.
  • (8) Commenting on the BBA figures, Richard Sexton director of chartered surveyors e.surv, said: “Borrowers finally have more money in their pockets as inflation remains limited and wages are experiencing a tangible rise.
  • (9) In the Australian on Monday, Michael Sexton, a legal academic and New South Wales solicitor general, also called for the changes to go ahead.
  • (10) "Wilf McGuinness, Frank O'Farrell and Dave Sexton never managed it and Tommy Docherty took us into Division Two before finding the magic formula.
  • (11) Richard Sexton, business development director at chartered surveyors e.surv, said: "The market is still very delicate at the moment.
  • (12) History shows Andrew Sexton Gray to have been a founder of Australian ophthalmology.
  • (13) In her poem "Rapunzel," Anne Sexton maps out a model of lesbian etiology that at once parodies the model proposed by Freud and significantly amends it.
  • (14) "In February 2013, immediately after the revelations about horse meat, total supermarket organic sales increased to their highest level in nine months, indicating a growing desire among consumers for food that they can trust," Sexton said.
  • (15) Sexton says, perfectly accurately, that FLS has been like a "course of steroids" for the mortgage market.
  • (16) She said something like, "Anne Sexton is dead – she's done it too," and some floor of some world seemed to fall away from under us, and keep falling and falling.
  • (17) The female pre-Oedipal phase is crucially at stake in such a comparison, as Sexton's account suggests that the pleasures of the pre-Oedipal mother-daughter dyad are dangerously strong for the girl child, and seem to be the force that compels the majority of girls into the rechanneling of libidinal desire from the mother to the father.
  • (18) Literary editor David Sexton will also contribute to the TV column.
  • (19) Sexton added the conversion – off the left upright, further suggesting that what luck there was might be going Ireland’s way – and the holders were seven points up in six minutes and 10 after 10 minutes – the Welsh differential halved – when Sexton landed his first penalty.
  • (20) Richard Sexton, business development director of e.surv , said: "With the economy in peril from every angle, lenders are playing it safe and training their sights on wealthier borrowers.

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