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
Four years later, she still leaves flowers at the potter’s field each Memorial Day.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
In an effort to ease the backlog, the medical examiner’s office buried dozens of unclaimed bodies in early April at Hart Island, its potter’s field.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2020
Forget the potter’s field near the Bronx full of freshly dug graves.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2020
The bodies of the indigent dead were carted to the potter’s field and dumped, but no gravediggers were there to bury them.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
