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
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 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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
