potter's field
Example Sentences
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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
Four years later, she still leaves flowers at the potter’s field each Memorial Day.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
In another, a body was sent to Hart Island — New York’s potter's field — to be buried without the family’s knowledge or approval.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2020
Forget the potter’s field near the Bronx full of freshly dug graves.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2020
One of the worst things that could be said about someone from Harlem was that he was buried in potter’s field.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
