potter's field
Example Sentences
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The family lived down the street from the potter’s field where the boy was first buried, and placed flowers there on holidays.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
After an autopsy, Joseph was buried for the first time at a potter’s field in the city.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
The local council of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal group of which both are members, helped raise money for the interment and donated a marker for the potter’s field.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
It is the home of New York’s potter’s field, the city’s cemetery for the indigent and anonymous — the homeless, those who cannot be identified, those whose families cannot afford to provide a burial.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2020
Mr. Collins caught the fever, and a few days later he joined the rest of his family members in the crowded potter’s field.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
