How to Use graveyard shift in a Sentence

graveyard shift

noun
  • One of her parents works long days; the other works the graveyard shift.
    — Lynne Peeples, TIME, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The film is set over the course of a graveyard shift at a strange and haunted gas station.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Her husband works graveyard shifts at a food packaging plant.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 5 Apr. 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
  • Yet a smaller share of Americans are working the graveyard shift than in decades past.
    — Kate Concannon, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Bartending could be fun, but the worst was working the graveyard shift at a lamb slaughterhouse.
    — Drew Champlin, AL.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Wood was working the graveyard shift alone the night of the shooting, according to reports.
    — Matt Bruce, ajc, 11 May 2022
  • So she’s gone back to work, pulling graveyard shifts as a janitor at a local university.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • One night in early May, a ventilator alarm went off during the graveyard shift.
    — USA Today, 21 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • As Frank, Cage's character works the graveyard shift in a two-man ambulance.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • There were people who went there on the other mornings anyway, like graveyard shift workers and just early morning drinkers.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • His father works the graveyard shift at the Franz bakery in Northeast Portland, about nine miles away.
    — oregonlive, 1 June 2020
  • Instead of reaching for a cup of coffee during a graveyard shift, workers might one day hold an electric razor–sized device to their necks.
    — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 10 June 2021
  • 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
  • After working a graveyard shift at UPS, Luigi got into a car crash.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • My neighbor Jim continues to manage the local supermarket graveyard shift to keep the shelves stocked.
    — Jennifer Folsom, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Keery plays Travis, aka Teacake, who works the graveyard shift at the storage company and needs the job as part of his parole conditions.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Flores, who now lives in Avondale, had a full-time job working the graveyard shift in a warehouse when the coronavirus pandemic started.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2021
  • 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

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