graveyard shift
noun
: a work shift beginning late at night (such as 11 o'clock)
also
: the workers on such a shift
Examples of graveyard shift in a Sentence
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Reputation’s tougher bangers captured my stress around working graveyard shifts — 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. — as an overnight editor.
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Melissah Yang, refinery29.com, 9 Aug. 2023
After college came a string of menial jobs: in a record store; in a grocery store; the graveyard shift at a gas station.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
An industrial cleaning company accused by federal investigators of hiring dozens of children to clean slaughterhouses during the graveyard shift has resolved the allegations with the U.S. Department of Labor, according to a federal court filing filed Tuesday morning.
—Laura Strickler, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
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
Her graveyard shift officers made news — the warm, fuzzy kind — late on Christmas Day, which typifies her people approach.
—Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
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
So she’s gone back to work, pulling graveyard shifts as a janitor at a local university.
—Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
Larroquette, a New Orleans native with a double bass voice and a 6-foot-4 frame, played Dan Fielding, the smarmy prosecutor assigned to the graveyard shift at a Manhattan municipal court.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
Melissah Yang, refinery29.com, 9 Aug. 2023
After college came a string of menial jobs: in a record store; in a grocery store; the graveyard shift at a gas station.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
An industrial cleaning company accused by federal investigators of hiring dozens of children to clean slaughterhouses during the graveyard shift has resolved the allegations with the U.S. Department of Labor, according to a federal court filing filed Tuesday morning.
—Laura Strickler, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
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
Her graveyard shift officers made news — the warm, fuzzy kind — late on Christmas Day, which typifies her people approach.
—Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
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
So she’s gone back to work, pulling graveyard shifts as a janitor at a local university.
—Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
Larroquette, a New Orleans native with a double bass voice and a 6-foot-4 frame, played Dan Fielding, the smarmy prosecutor assigned to the graveyard shift at a Manhattan municipal court.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
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