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graveyard shifts

n. (plural of graveyard shift English)

Usage examples of "graveyard shifts".

Riding among an exhausted busful of Negroes going on to graveyard shifts all over the city, she saw scratched on the back of a seat, shining for her in the brilliant smoky interior, the post horn with the legend DEATH.

There are about eighty or ninety men working on the night and graveyard shifts up there.

But it was rejoin the guild or work temporary positions on graveyard shifts, the kind of work done under conditions that any guild worker would turn his or her nose up at.

The dispatchers knew everything that went on in the local office, and were usually the people there during the evening and graveyard shifts.