How To Use Undertaker In A Sentence
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She covered his body with the chenille spread and went inside to phone the undertaker.
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Michael served as an auctioneer from 1955 to 1997 and as a funeral undertaker and shopkeeper up to the time of his death.
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The media exequies for Cronkite we9re no surprise, of course: there is no undertaker like television, and he was its own.
By the Blight of the Silvery Moon: Mad Men Postmortem: James Wolcott
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Again, the undertaker offered two choices to the client: outright purchase of all the accoutrements or the hire thereof.
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If you're a fan of the TV hit series "Six Feet Under," you certainly do, Michael C. Hall, best known as the uptight undertaker David Fisher.
CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2002
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He might have been an undertaker but, against his natural inclination, he became an avid partygoer.
Times, Sunday Times
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That the undertaker at the same time bears the risks attendant upon production has to be taken into account when we consider the individual undertaker, but not when we consider the institution as such, for we cannot speak of the risk of the body of undertakers as a whole, I called the undertaker, not a man, but a something, because in truth it need not be a man with flesh and blood.
Freeland A Social Anticipation
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Sorry, expecting Jindal to be an undertaker is setting the bar way too high.
Matthew Yglesias » Fox News Panel Pans Jindal
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When we went into the undertaker to arrange a grave, they said it had all been taken care of.
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And in the latter situation, the incomes shall be divided equally between FCI and undertaker association.
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So I went myself to see the undertaker, select the bearers, and arrange all the funeral details.
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The package includes services provided by the state mortuary, contracted undertakers, transport of the body, coffin and religious minister.
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And thus have we discovered the blessed agents and undertakers in this work their several actions and orderly concurrence unto the whole; which, though they may be thus distinguished, yet they are not so divided but that every one must be ascribed to the whole nature, whereof each person is “in solidum” partaker.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
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One was a policeman and the other was an undertaker.
The Sun
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Last December, he had the first of four cardiac arrests, which made him so ill he consulted solicitors to make a will and undertakers to plan his funeral - and even ordered his gravestone.
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It was only when undertakers called at the hospital to collect the baby that his absence was discovered.
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An undertaker came to the house to embalm him, and then he was to be taken to the cemetery.
The Fiddler in the Subway
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He might have been an undertaker but, against his natural inclination, he became an avid partygoer.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems the deceased is the brother of Raymond Barnette, local undertaker and a candidate for sheriff, who wants to keep any hint of kinkiness out of the minds of the God-fearing populace.
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The business of an undertaker is a refinement of modern civilization.
Oldtown Folks
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Undertakers who breach these rules risk prosecution.
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The numerous men employed as bearers become undertakers, although they have never done anything until they have got the job.
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"I've seen her, " he noticed the gleam of hope in the undertaker's eye.
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All burials and cremations are arranged by professional undertakers.
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The monotonous hum of words out of the undertaker's mouth was slowly lulling my mind into some kind of stasis.
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Berlin undertaker Walter Mueller said: Bodies that went into the ground 30 years ago look like they went in last week.
Boing Boing: March 17, 2002 - March 23, 2002 Archives
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In the silver mines of Peru, we are told by Frezier and Ulloa, the proprietor frequently exacts no other acknowledgment from the undertaker of the mine, but that he will grind the ore at his mill, paying him the ordinary multure or price of grinding.
XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land
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The local undertaker carried the body into town for embalming, then returned it to the ranch where it was laid out in the living room.
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As we blagged a lift from the undertaker, I hoped that Ray was strong enough to deal with this.
THE MANANA MAN
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Her son said that when undertakers arrived to remove her body from the hospital mortuary two days later, the rings were missing from her fingers.
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Now she says she may become an undertaker.
The Sun
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I was speaking with Sebastian the undertaker, who we found besotted with wine in the mausoleum yesterday evening.
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If you're going to have a show about undertakers, it can't be just bleakness and depression.
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In this particular case, it's a mob of undertakers who partake in a bit of racketeering and diamond theft on the side.
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My dear friend, Jack Tufthunt, for example, knows ONE Lord whom he met at a watering-place: old Lord Mumble, who is as toothless as a three-months-old baby, and as mum as an undertaker, and as dull as — well, we will not particularise.
The Book of Snobs
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A sewerage undertaker is unable to prevent connections being made to the existing system, and the ingress of water through these connections, even if this risks overloading the existing sewers.
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When all the arrangements had been made, I told the undertaker, whom Papa called Digger, that I wanted to see my father.
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‘The undertaker suggested dutiful or loving daughter,’ David continued.
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The family have asked the funeral undertakers not to disclose any details of the arrangements leading up to the burial.
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The word "undertaker" had long been in common usage.
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Also patron of death row inmates, prisoners, thieves, and undertakers.
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Go to the scene, call Div Surgeon to certify death, afterwards call the undertaker on call and remove body.
The Love Shack, Baby. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Miller is also the local undertaker and seems to have both an intuitive and mystical sense of how critically important his work is.
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Joy for an undertaker, Rich for a pauper, or Noble for a tailor; Big for a lean or little person, and Small for one who is broad in the rear and abdominous in the van; Short for a fellow six feet without his shoes, or Long for him whose high heels barely elevate him to the height of five; Sweet for one who has either a vinegar face, or a foxy complexion; Younghusband for an old bachelor; Merryweather for any one in November or February, a black spring, a cold summer, or a wet autumn; Goodenough for a person no better than he should be; Toogood for _any_ human creature; and Best for a subject who is perhaps too bad to be endured.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
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The owners of those outlets deserve the epitaph once penned by William Allen White about newspaper tycoon Frank Munsey: He combined the talents of a meatpacker, the manners of an undertaker, and the morals of a moneychanger.
Bernard Weisberger: Onward Wisconsin
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Then there is a baffled son, emotionally involved with an overambitious undertaker.
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And in the latter situation, the incomes shall be divided equally between FCI and undertaker association.
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We can't do anything now, but in the morning I'll write to the doctor, her lawyer, and the undertaker.
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Except the pawnbroker's, the distiller's, and the undertaker's, the houses are literally ruins; but these doorkeepers to Famine, Disease, and Death, living by the calamities of others, are in a flourishing state.
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Again, the undertaker offered two choices to the client: outright purchase of all the accoutrements or the hire thereof.
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When she died, her father arranged for the undertaker to pick up her body from the hospital on a Saturday.
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He abused his power against the roster that rebelled against him, before being tombstoned to hell by the Undertaker.
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He was a long and slimly built man with the grace and appearance of an undertaker.
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As he came back to Hatherly Court from the church, they were putting up the hatchment over the door, and Master Fred saw that the undertakers had put at the bottom “Resurgam”.
Doctor Thorne
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Some rather solid-sounding sounding justifications for the procedure have been advanced, above and beyond the fact that embalming is good business for the undertaker because it helps him to sell more expensive caskets.
The Undertaker's Racket
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One of the criteria for the selection of undertakers and tenants was that they be conformable in religion.
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Where a sewer is requisitioned, the sewerage undertaker may require contribution to the cost from the person requisitioning the sewer.
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A nurse in a shiny white ski parka who really did seem angelic came to certify her death, and then the undertaker, who had "buried" Dad and was a neighbor, gently took her body away.
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Didn’t you call an undertaker to provide a coffin, Luther?
Twilight’s Child
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Heather described how the cremation took place nine days after his death earlier this year in Reddish and said the undertakers were instructed to collect the urn and store it.
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Like the driver of the tow truck who “rescued” us in Waverly, Louisiana, who said, “I am the undertaker.
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For extra payment, undertakers began to offer wealthier people new facilities without the taint of the public mortuary to store their dead away from home.
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Scoffing at the suggestion that an undertaker is a "professional man," Chambers said any good plumber could learn how to embalm in sixty days.
The Undertaker's Racket
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The word "undertaker" had long been in common usage.
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He worked as an undertaker's assistant when he left school.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clause 70 of the previous Bill required the undertakers to install monitoring apparatus to monitor water level and quality for infectious diseases.
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His TV face was once likened to an undertaker's assistant.
The Sun
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In other words the Greek seems to encompass a profound complexity of meaning as regards the placement (if that is the right word) of the head cloth, napkin, or, in fact, the σουδαριον/sudarium (in essence the same word, evidently a technical term in the repertoire of near eastern undertakers in Roman-occupied Palestine).
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And he said a local undertaker had told him he had arranged at least four funerals after fatalities on that stretch of road over the last 20 years.
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Straight after the funeral the undertaker gave us all the paperwork and had it in a folder for us, and said this was for our keeping, just to look at later.
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John, who like many rural undertakers had a sideline in the building trade, was born and bred in Bourton.
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Urban arterial road is the main undertaker for the urban transportation. The transportation capacity can be improved by combining and controlling many intersections in one trunk road.
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They also thanked the choir, servers, undertakers, and everyone who attended the funeral.
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I overtake the undertaker who takes my stake by mistake.
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Families started hiring undertakers to prepare the deceased for burial.
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But the don is immediately shown as a gentle person sniffing a flower, remarking about the undertaker being mistaken about them being murders.
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But the undertaker, by some misunderstanding, took the man's remains to the house of the woman's friends, where a wake was held.
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Mourning families had been forced to keep the corpses of dead loved ones in their homes because there was no way undertakers could reach them.
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With so much going on stealing attention away from Undertaker, does his title reign have any chance to be looked at as anything but a transitional reign waiting to be ended by one of the previously mentioned names?
PWTorch.com
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Look at it this way: when an epidemic hits, you need doctors to tend to the sick and undertakers to bury the dead.
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He was at that time working in the removal business and had no experience as a funeral director or undertaker.
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In short, what with undertakers, embalmers, joiners, sextons and your damned elegy hawkers, I got not one wink of sleep.
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I hadn't made arrangements with an undertaker and the phone rang off the hook with calls from New York.
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English Heritage will enter into the, ahem, spirit of things, by putting on a series of spooky events in the ruins of Whitby Abbey, including ghost tours, creepy craft activities, twilight falconry displays and Victorian funerals with costumed undertakers and hangmen until 6 November, english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/whitby-abbey.
Going goth in Whitby
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Just before the funeral, the undertaker came up to the elderly widow and asked: ‘How old was your husband?’
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As light drizzle began to fall on a dark London night, six pallbearers, from a firm of undertakers carefully lifted the coffin from the hearse.
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Mineral undertakers have long-standing powers to obtain rights over land containing mineral deposits.
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Bill Murray, as the local undertaker who'd be a slimy salesman if he weren't so existentially exhausted, is there to assist in the proceedings.
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He also operated a local undertaker's business to which he brought his own wonderful sense of dignity and perspective.
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When ‘the big boys’ took over in 1989 she decided to leave and started working as a trade embalmer travelling the country to carry out the task for undertakers who did not have their own staff.
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There are 30 undertakers and about 8,500 funerals held a year in Dublin.
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On the evening of the 5th of October a small snake and several very large scorpions came crawling about us as we sat round the fire; we managed to bottle the scorpions, but though we wounded the snake it escaped; I was very anxious to methylate him also, but it appeared he had other ideas, and I should not be at all surprised if a pressing interview with his undertaker was one of them.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
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Again, the undertaker offered two choices to the client: outright purchase of all the accoutrements or the hire thereof.
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All burials and cremations are arranged by professional undertakers.
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The family undertakers receive the remains and prepare them, lovingly beautifying them in the white-tiled basement embalming room for the reassurance of the people left behind.
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There will be a fell puckle funerals I daresay," said the undertaker.
A Dominie in Doubt
