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How to use undertaker in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Undertaker means a funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations. Example: “In 1588, Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.”

Examples of undertaker by meaning

nounA person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by...

  • In 1588, Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.

nounOne who undertakes or commits to doing something.

  • A company shall not be appointed to be a water undertaker unless it is a limited company or a statutory water company and shall not be appointed to be a sewerage undertaker unless it is a limited company.1991, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part II, Chapter I, section 6(5)”, in Water Industry Act 1991, page 8
  • The undertaker of the enterprise is usually known today by the French term entrepreneur because we have surrendered the English word to the undertakers of funerals.2001, Technology, Humans, and Society: Toward a Sustainable World

More sentences with undertaker

  • The bagman clutching the nuclear football like an undertaker at a wedding.2013, Richard Doyle, Executive Action. From the entry bagman
  • I even got a fridgie from the feckin’ undertaker when I buried Redser.2013, Brendan O’Carroll, Michael Joseph, “Room by Room”, in Mrs. Brown’s Family Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Ruining Your Home &…. From the entry fridgie
  • One boy in a black tuxedo and red shoes plays a wheezing accordion like a roadside undertaker.2009, J. P. White, Every Boat Turns South, page 112. From the entry wheeze
  • He is a good value—earnest, sympathetic, solid to the bone and not overcomplicated—just the way you′d hope your undertaker would be.2007, Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land, page 95. From the entry good value
  • It took the undertaker and that big old strappin' teenage boy of his quite a while to pull him aloose.2006, Mary Monroe, God Don't Like Ugly. From the entry aloose
  • His crying was now audible as the undertaker helped him from the kneeler and back to his seat.1986, Craig G. Harris, “Cut Off from Among Their People”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 66. From the entry kneeler
  • How to combine the ready availableness of a dictionary with an encyclopædical completeness is the problem to be considered by the undertaker of a work like this.1901, Montogomery Schuyler, The International Quarterly, volume IV, page 832. From the entry encyclopædical
  • At the lower levels men do not fight calmly and they are not reassured by commanders affecting the manner of an undertaker or the dead pan of a poker player.2000, S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command, page 139. From the entry dead pan

Meaning of undertaker

  1. noun A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.
  2. noun A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language.
  3. noun A contractor for the royal revenue in England, one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the Addled Parliament of 1614.

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Questions about undertaker in a sentence

How do you use undertaker in a sentence?
Undertaker is used as a noun. For example: “In 1588, Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.”
What is a short sentence with undertaker?
“The bagman clutching the nuclear football like an undertaker at a wedding.”
What does undertaker mean?
Undertaker means a funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.

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