potter's field
Example Sentences
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Calvary Catholic Cemetery — made a plan: Establish a potter’s field, gather the unclaimed dead and give them a proper burial.
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
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
Soon after, they were buried in unmarked graves in a potter's field.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
