How to Use undertaker in a Sentence

undertaker

noun

• That’s one for every penalty — and proof the NFL isn’t on the phone with an undertaker.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
• An arm was inserted into the left coat sleeve and a black rosary placed in the hand -- by the undertaker.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Sep. 2020
• By the way, Reubel had only been an undertaker for six months.
  — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2021
• Instead, as the story goes, Hunter paid the undertaker 500 pounds to steal it and replace it with stones.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
• On Zoom their voices refuse to ring as one, so one singer takes the lead while the undertaker, who is Catholic, wraps the body in simple white shrouds.
  — Daniel Burke, CNN, 13 Nov. 2020
• The flowers had been laid on his casket, and the undertaker had tried to dismiss us, but the people would not move.
  — Laurel Mathewson Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
• If not, a trip down Death Road, to the wealthy undertaker, who cremates programs.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
  — Becca Martin-Brown, Arkansas Online, 25 Nov. 2019
• Even in the heat of southern Spain, Mr. Zamora wears a tie and loafers, looking more like a lawyer than an undertaker.
  — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• Within two decades, the undertakers say, 4 out of 5 people will be.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2018
• For years, Fowles has studied to be an undertaker when not battling on the hardwood.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• But his career looked like it was headed to the undertaker just one year later.
  — Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
• There are nurse bees, and undertaker bees that carry out the dead bees like coffin-bearers.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• British undertakers shed light on the business of dying in this BBC Two series.
  — Sara Aridi, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• Huck attends the funeral of Colonel Grangerford, where the undertaker sets up the coffin in the middle of the parlor with chairs fanned out around it.
  — Ellen Wayland-Smith, Longreads, 21 Mar. 2018
• The son of a Memphis undertaker, Smith was a sometime barber who loved to tinker.
  — Erika Larsen, National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2020
• His brain will already be shook, his money will already be took, and his name will already be in the undertaker’s book.
  — Lance Pugmire, latimes.com, 14 Aug. 2017
• The undertakers sprang into action and removed nearly 90% of the hot, clean dead bees within half an hour.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 20 Mar. 2020
• During a cholera epidemic, the undertaker couldn’t keep up with all the bodies coming in, and some remains were sealed inside the walls.
  — cleveland, 15 Oct. 2021
• The actor will take the lead as an undertaker who finds his business booming when outlaws take over his frontier town.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017
• In the past, this small-town undertaker had always been there for his bespectacled friend.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 23 June 2018
• Dowd stars as a secretive undertaker forced to take in two orphans.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 6 May 2022
• So is Cedric Young, here playing the undertaker West, a fastidious figure who profits from the death of Black men.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2022
• The longest was to an undertaker in Los Angeles in which Jensen planned her own funeral.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 28 Oct. 2019
• The undertaker announced that this was the loudest his funeral home had ever been.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2022
• First, Lennon seemed dressed as an undertaker and Ringo in funereal black.
  — Saleah Blancaflor, PEOPLE.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• The mayor of Fair Bluff is Billy Hammond, who works as an undertaker at the local funeral home.
  — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• The neighbor, an undertaker, responded by erecting a 10-foot-long coffin on his roof and painting a skull and crossbones on it.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 7 July 2015
• This casual description of death could be based on Michael’s youth spent with our father Richard, the town undertaker in Fulda, Minn.
  — Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• There, Basel’s remains were handed over to Syrian undertakers who took them to a burial site outside Aleppo.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024