potter's field
Example Sentences
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Four years later, she still leaves flowers at the potter’s field each Memorial Day.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
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
The videos emerged as the coronavirus outbreak ravaged New York, and after they circulated, officials confirmed what viewers suspected: The city had begun interring unclaimed bodies of Covid-19 victims in the potter’s field.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2020
Forget the potter’s field near the Bronx full of freshly dug graves.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2020
Soon after, they were buried in unmarked graves in a potter's field.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
