potter's field
Example Sentences
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After an autopsy, Joseph was buried for the first time at a potter’s field in the city.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022
There is room for more than 14,000 cremains in the potter’s field, and both men say they plan to continue claiming and burying the dead until they join them in the earthly embrace of Mt.
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
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
Soon after, they were buried in unmarked graves in a potter's field.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
