How to Use graveyard shift in a Sentence

graveyard shift

noun

• She was put on the schedule for the next graveyard shift.
  — Erika Hayasaki, The Atlantic, 5 May 2020
• The place that employed Easterling and Bocks was a sprawling, 1,050-acre site, and the two worked the graveyard shift.
  — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• Those graveyard shift workers were forced to lie face down on the floor, while the robbers tied their hands and feet with duct tape.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• Holder took a forklift-driver job on the graveyard shift, with a cut in pay, to get away from Long.
  — Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times, 30 Apr. 2018
• The next month, Sheriff Scott demoted him to work the graveyard shift as a jailer.
  — Jerry Mitchell Rory Doyle, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Wood was working the graveyard shift alone the night of the shooting, according to reports.
  — Matt Bruce, ajc, 11 May 2022
• His father works the graveyard shift at the Franz bakery in Northeast Portland, about nine miles away.
  — oregonlive, 1 June 2020
• My newly single mom worked the graveyard shift as a nurse in the psych ward of our local hospital to make ends meet.
  — May Cobb, Good Housekeeping, 24 July 2023
• Ronda Soto, 60, who grew up about a mile north of the courts, works the graveyard shift as a security guard.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2021
• Everybody loves a fall picnic—just ask the graveyard shift!
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022
• One night on the graveyard shift, Mayo watched a cleaning lady push her cart down a darkened hallway.
  — Cara Kelly, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2019
• And fell apart to where the father of six had to take a graveyard shift at Costco to try to make ends meet, according to a story in Billboard.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Bartending could be fun, but the worst was working the graveyard shift at a lamb slaughterhouse.
  — Drew Champlin, AL.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• As Frank, Cage's character works the graveyard shift in a two-man ambulance.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• Her graveyard shift was set around her child-care routines: day care, help from an aunt, getting her oldest child to school.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• On Wednesday morning, Fritch knew something was amiss when her husband, who worked the graveyard shift, wasn’t home yet.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2021
• The night after the panga landed in San Clemente, the Coast Guard alerted agents on a graveyard shift that swimmers had been spotted on video crossing the line.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
• In his sophomore year, while on the graveyard shift at his part-time job, Dunn suddenly felt knifelike pains in his stomach.
  — Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 18 Feb. 2020
• Neiro Vargas, the security guard, was walking home from his 14-hour graveyard shift when he was caught in the neck by a stray bullet.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Nine months later, a rookie cop working the graveyard shift in San Diego spotted the black Thunderbird.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• Her husband works graveyard shifts at a food packaging plant.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 5 Apr. 2020
• After working a graveyard shift at UPS, Luigi got into a car crash.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020
• One night in early May, a ventilator alarm went off during the graveyard shift.
  — USA Today, 21 Oct. 2020
• Downs began his career at Heaven Hill on the bottling line in 1976 and transitioned to a role working the graveyard shift in the distillery in a matter of months.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2022
• The children were reared on the graveyard shift, with the family staying up all night and going to bed shortly before dawn, Hestrin said.
  — Amy Taxin, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
• Laid off from the warehouse job his friend Tommy got him, Oscar sold tacos from a stand outside parties and worked the graveyard shift at a convenience store.
  — Jonathan Bullington, courier-journal.com, 20 July 2014
• Clegg was carrying $1,200 in his wallet at the time, the equivalent of four weeks of pay from his job working the graveyard shift as a janitor at the restaurant, records show.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2022
• Combs, for example, works the graveyard shift, begins each workday at 1:30 a.m. His days off are Thursday and Sunday.
  — Peter Whoriskey, The Seattle Times, 24 Dec. 2017
• For decades Bintliff worked the graveyard shift as a printing press operator and Joanne was a typesetter for the same company.
  — Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• The mothers and grandmothers oversee the chaos from balconies that overlook the parking lot, waving as their neighbors leave for work or come back from the graveyard shift.
  — Bianca Padró Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2018

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024